10. Bartlett, A. ‘Desire in the Desert.’ Antipodes 15.2 (2001): 119-23. Notes ?different approach to R. Haynes (1998) Why? Timing? ** good for essay !! I like this better than Gelder & Jacobs (1998) Summary: Bartlett maps personal issues and relationships that are established and transformed through travel to the desert, and argues that white, Anglo-Celtic Australian women’s narratives of desert travel resist the dominant heroic, masculine ‘explorer’ theme and instead imagine “a place of potential, a place in which social relations might be remade” (2001: 121). Desert: space of desire vs space of discovery Desire: women, femininity, negotiating relationships. Critical desires, feminine desires, + personal. Whiteness: white Anglo-Celtic subjects. Aboriginal subjects? The sacred? See also V. Brady CONTENT THINKING Notes from p 120
11. Here’s another method Bartlett, Alison. “Desire in the Desert: Exploring Contemporary Australian Desert Narratives.” Antipodes 15.2 (2001): 119-23. From p119: Most Australian desert narratives by white women writers involve a journey to and through the desert by coastal city- dwellers. As such, the desert is already positioned as "other” and yet it is also a liminal landscape, a place of possibility, a potential filled with personal desires. This excerpt is good for the paragraph where I argue that the desert is a constructed and imagined place, and is not outside the politics of race. Desert: Not just a geographical place or location but ALSO about feelings, expectations, desires. “Otherness” = constructed (not ‘natural’) 1 2 3 4 Reference Quote Summary Ideas
