You'll Want to Live Here: An intersectional analysis from someone who doesn't
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posted on 2024-06-02, 23:36 authored by Jana NormanYou'll Want to Live Here: An intersectional analysis from someone who doesn't
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Background Fictocritical writing is a hybrid practice contesting ‘the idea that creative work is only imaginative, and critical work only interpretive and discursive’, highlighting ‘the intellectual work that creative writing undertakes, and the way it engages with philosophical, cultural and political systems of thought’ (Smith, 2014). It is ‘writing as research’ (Gibbs, 2005), ‘gently flapping between experience and interpretation’ (Kerr and Nettlebeck, 1998). Fictocritical writing is open to passionate engagement, aiming ‘to do something differently, to undo something, to make a difference’ (Gibbs, 2005). Contribution This original fictocritical article undoes the modernist progress narrative in the 1974 South Australian Film Corporation production promoting the West Lakes suburb near Adelaide. The scheme, supported by Don Dunstan’s Labor government, was celebrated as an ambitious engineering project and hallmark of South Australia’s bright future in industry, labour and migration. Dunstan appears in the film. I received permission to access the Dunstan archive at Flinders University and was also given access to the West Lakes collection at University of South Australia, in addition to conducting field research onsite. This is the first extant critique of the scheme. Significance The piece appeared in the peer-reviewed journal The Saltbush Review, which is funded by Arts SA. The issue was themed ‘Intersections’ and my contribution draws out the intersectionality of the West Lakes development and its promotion in the context of similar suburban developments across the western world. As an original piece of creative work, it employs fictocritical techniques and humour to highlight the ways in which such developments exclude non-preferred identities and reinscribe the divisions of nature and culture inherent in western ontology.Publication classification
JO3 Original Creative Works – Textual WorkScale
NTRO MinorPublisher
The Saltbush ReviewPlace of publication
Adelaide, S.Aust.Source
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