{"id":18340,"date":"2011-11-22T01:56:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T01:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18340"},"modified":"2011-11-23T03:11:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T03:11:01","slug":"racial-ambiguity-and-whiteness-in-brian-castro%e2%80%99s-drift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18340","title":{"rendered":"Racial Ambiguity and Whiteness in Brian Castro\u2019s Drift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ub.edu\/dpfilsa\/jeasa22brun11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Ambiguity and Whiteness in Brian Castro\u2019s Drift<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ub.edu\/dpfilsa\/jeasamainpage.html\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of the European Association of Studies on Australia<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ub.edu\/dpfilsa\/jeasaiindexvol2no2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 2, Number 2<\/a>, 2009<br \/>\npages 113-126<br \/>\nISSN 2013-6897<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:marilynebrun@yahoo.fr\">Marilyne Brun<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer in Postcolonia Studies<br \/>\n<em>Universit\u00e9 Nancy 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article focuses on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lythrumpress.com.au\/castro\/novels.html#Drift\" target=\"_blank\">Drift<\/a><\/em>, the fifth novel of contemporary Australian writer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lythrumpress.com.au\/castro\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Castro<\/a>, and concentrates on the ambiguous racial inscriptions of some of its characters. While white experimental British writer B.S. Johnson progressively becomes darker in the novel, his desire to escape his whiteness is complicated by another extreme, the albinism of Tasmanian Aboriginal Thomas McGann. This article discusses one essential aspect of these surprising fictional representations: the critique of whiteness that they articulate. The racial ambiguity of the two main characters offers a subtle reflection on Tasmania\u2019s colonial legacy. Yet beyond Castro\u2019s exploration of the contingencies of the Tasmanian context, the characters\u201f racial ambivalence destabilises conventional representations of whiteness. The novel both exposes the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metonymy\" target=\"_blank\">metonymic<\/a> nature of whiteness and critiques the specific modes of reading the body that are involved in preoccupations with whiteness.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ub.edu\/dpfilsa\/jeasa22brun11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racial Ambiguity and Whiteness in Brian Castro\u2019s Drift Journal of the European Association of Studies on Australia Volume 2, Number 2, 2009 pages 113-126 ISSN 2013-6897 Marilyne Brun, Lecturer in Postcolonia Studies Universit\u00e9 Nancy 2 This article focuses on Drift, the fifth novel of contemporary Australian writer, Brian Castro, and concentrates on the ambiguous racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,4405],"tags":[986,6163,8337,6160,8358],"class_list":["post-18340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-oceania","tag-australia","tag-brian-castro","tag-journal-of-the-european-association-of-studies-on-australia","tag-marilyne-brun","tag-tasmania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}