Naslov
Rethinking Space: Third Space and Hybridity in Doris Pilkington's Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence and Phillip Noyce's Film Adaptation

Autori
Periš, Lucija

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
In Lieu of Duration: Spatiotemporal Excursions in Literature, Film and Architecture / Stasiowski, Maciej - London : Delhi : Interdisciplinary Discourses, 2021, 97-118

ISBN
978-1-9196138-2-6

Skup
International Conference "Spatiality and Temporality"

Mjesto i datum
London, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 04.07.2020. - 05.07.2020

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
colonialism, Doris Pilkington, hybridity, otherness, Phillip Noyce, third space

Sažetak
The paper examines the presence of the concept of third space and hybridity in Doris Pilkington’s biography Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996) and Phillip Noyce’s film Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) as an unwanted but inevitable consequence of colonial tendencies in Australia. The book and the film tell the story of three mixed-race Aboriginal girls’ escape from the Moore River Native Settlement, Australian government’s establishment formed with the idea of forcibly integrating the indigenous Australian children into the white society and extinguishing the indigenous traits in them. The paper explores how the colonizer aims to impose its culture by establishing control of the colonized space and the colonized native seeks to preserve its heritage by resisting the established spatial boundaries, which eventually creates a place of in-betweenness and hybridity. The paper relies on Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of hybridity to explain how new cultural forms are generated in the contact zone. Namely, the cross-cultural contact oftentimes leads to the creation of syncretic blends - landscape, racial, linguistic, cultural, educational, and religious hybrids. The imposition of colonial power thus generates a new race who create a community of their own by appropriating elements from both colonial and the colonized culture. The paper reaches a conclusion that cultural identity is not spatially bounded, hence the colonial and the colonized culture cannot operate in isolation. It is the very place of in-betweenness and instability that stimulates cultural changes, meaning that hybridity diminishes the colonial power and paves the ways for the colonized subject to be heard.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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