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

19世纪初的澳大利亚文本中回荡着围绕殖民的焦虑和争议。殖民和原住民关系的道德性在大量书籍、小册子、信件和社论中被激烈辩论，在这方面，包括传教士在内的宗教人员发挥了关键作用。然而，对殖民传教士写作的批判性分析并不存在。该项目对由宗教/传教士人物组成的联系网络产生的文本进行档案研究，重点是兰斯洛特·特雷科尔德经营的麦夸里湖传教活动，并通过殖民话语和文本理论对这些文本进行分析。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。

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.