The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt
Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver
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The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt
Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver
From the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children's tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver examine hunting narratives in novels, visual art and memoirs to discover how the kangaroo became a favourite quarry, a relished food source, an object of scientific fascination, and a source of violent conflict between settlers and Aboriginal people.
The kangaroo hunt worked as a rite of passage and an expression of settler domination over native species and land. But it also enabled settlers to begin to comprehend the complexity of bush ecology, raising early concerns about species extinction and the need for conservation and the preservation of habitat.
From the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children's tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver examine hunting narratives in novels, visual art and memoirs to discover how the kangaroo became a favourite quarry, a relished food source, an object of scientific fascination, and a source of violent conflict between settlers and Aboriginal people.
The kangaroo hunt worked as a rite of passage and an expression of settler domination over native species and land. But it also enabled settlers to begin to comprehend the complexity of bush ecology, raising early concerns about species extinction and the need for conservation and the preservation of habitat.
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An impressive feat of scholarship”
Australian Literary Studies“
Like the literature it discusses, The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt provides a surreal and disconcerting, yet convincing, evocation of our colonial history. By focusing on our relationship with such singular animals, the authors cast into sharp relief our own ambitions and ambiguities, our cruelty and our empathies.”
Danielle Clode, Australian Book Review“
As you’d expect from such accomplished scholar-writers, the book is impeccably researched, perspicuously written, continuously informative, and horribly entertaining.”
Justin Clemens
Ken Gelder
Ken Gelder is an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Melbourne. His books include Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation (1998, with Jane M Jacobs), Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (2004), Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice (2007), After the Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989–2007 (2009, with Paul Salzman) and, with Rachael Weaver, Colonial Australian Fiction (2017) and The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt (2020).
Rachael Weaver
Rachael Weaver is an ARC Future Fellow in English at the University of Tasmania. She is the author of The Criminal of the Century (2006) and, with Ken Gelder, The Colonial Journals, and the emergence of Australian literary culture (2014), Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social Formations and the Colonial Economy (2017), and The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt (2020).
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