“Some further being”: engaging with the other in David Malouf's an imaginary life

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dc.citation.epage32en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1en_US
dc.citation.spage17en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber41en_US
dc.contributor.authorRandall, D.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-31T17:39:02Z
dc.date.available2019-01-31T17:39:02Z
dc.date.issued2006-03en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article is most concerned with analysing the role of the other in Malouf’s fiction. It briefly considers Malouf’s relationship with history and postcoloniality before engaging in a close reading focused on Malouf’s personal grammar and figurative patterns. The argument demonstrates that Malouf’s style orients itself toward transformation: the grammar is active, movement-oriented, and the figures notably hybrid or syncretic. Text-making thus reveals itself as a principal path of approach to the other. Identification, as portrayed in psychoanalytic theory, presents itself as another path, especially in relation to imagination and dreams. The essay recognizes that a full apprehension of the other is not perhaps possible, although moments of contact and revitalizing exchange clearly are. Brief examination of the relation between otherness and the broader social world follows, giving attention to questions of gender. Extending beyond its exclusive consideration of An Imaginary Life, the essay concludes by acknowledging that Malouf explores his sense of the other most illuminatingly in relation to I-and-you.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0021989406062825en_US
dc.identifier.issn0021-9894
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/48651
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSageen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0021989406062825en_US
dc.source.titleThe Journal of Commonwealth Literatureen_US
dc.subjectDavid Maloufen_US
dc.subjectidentityen_US
dc.subjectAlterityen_US
dc.subjectTransformationen_US
dc.subjectLanguageen_US
dc.subjectImaginationen_US
dc.subjectDreamen_US
dc.title“Some further being”: engaging with the other in David Malouf's an imaginary lifeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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