The 'paper war': Missionary Textuality and Early Nineteenth-Century Australian Colonial Culture

“纸上战争”：传教士文本性与十九世纪早期澳大利亚殖民文化

• 批准号: DP0344710
• 负责人: Prof Anna Johnston
• 金额: $ 4.19万
• 依托单位: University of Tasmania
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2003-03-20 至 2005-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0344710
• 关键词: paper; war; Missionary; Textuality; Early

Early nineteenth-century Australian texts reverberate with the anxieties and controversies surrounding colonisation. The morality of colonisation and indigenous-settler relationships were hotly debated in a proliferation of books, pamphlets, letters, and editorials, and in this religious personnel, including missionaries, played a pivotal role. Yet no critical analysis of colonial missionary writing exists. This project conducts archival research into texts produced by a linked network of religious/missionary figures, focusing on the Lake Macquarie mission run by Lancelot Threlkeld, and analyses these through theories of colonial discourse and textuality. Research outcomes include original, innovative contributions to Australian literary/cultural studies and international colonial/postcolonial studies.

19世纪早期的澳大利亚文本反映了围绕殖民化的焦虑和争议。殖民化的道德和土著居民与定居者的关系在大量书籍、小册子、信件和社论中引起了激烈的争论，在这场争论中，包括传教士在内的宗教人士发挥了关键作用。然而，没有对殖民地传教士写作的批判性分析。该项目对由宗教/传教士人物组成的网络所产生的文本进行档案研究，重点是兰斯洛特特雷尔克尔德管理的麦考瑞湖使命，并通过殖民话语和文本性理论分析这些文本。研究成果包括对澳大利亚文学/文化研究和国际殖民/后殖民研究的原创性，创新性贡献。