Dialogue with Place: Toward an Ecological Body
Dialogue with Place: Toward an Ecological Body
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与地方对话:迈向生态体
DOI:
10.1353/jnt.2011.0054
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2010
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D. Rose
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D. Rose
Bakhtin's study of Rabelais and the grotesque body is my starting point. The inspiration is to explore a part of the cultural past of the west in search of subversions that may also be affirmations of alternatives. This is a restorative project that seeks to elaborate a possible dialogue between different moments in the marginal realm inhabited by spectres of language, metaphor, and possibility. My search takes me into the analysis of ProtoIndo-European language and culture, and my purpose is in the present. The dialogical aim of my paper is set within a decolonising endeavor: to explore some of the implications of considering place as a partner in dialogue. I will be looking toward a concept of dialogical interpA©nA©tration between person and place. In considering place, I specifically intend to speak to settler societies, and to the urgent imperative for us settler-descended peoples of learning to make peace with place. I see this as part of the broader issue of developing an ethics of care toward place. How may settlers both acknowledge indigenous people's prior and continuing rela