Abstract

For John Kinsella place and space, with all their historical, cultural, political, geographical, epistemic and environmental dimensions, are explicitly constitutive of his writing. But the ruling imaginary of this writing is “displacement,” the problems and paradoxes of home, country, travel, knowledge, ecology, activism that characterise his critical and poetic engagements. From multiple angles Kinsella’s writing anatomises the unsettledness of Australian history and consciousness, but it also conceives of these national dimensions in inter- and transnational terms. Kinsella is always concerned to show place, belonging and “international regionalism” alive in negotiations with the writing of any location, of all social and biological environments. Further his work reflects an activist politics of knowledge, with its recognition that a broad knowledge of locality needs to critique “Place” studies and discourses from privileged institutions of learning that fail to acknowledge the place-knowledge of communities that do not have access to means of articulating what makes their “local” knowledge relevant, dynamic and essential to themselves as well as to the wider world. At the same time, this critical discourse is shadowed by the affective realities of displacement, of never being able to be at home.

摘要

对于约翰·金塞拉（John Kinsella）而言，其所有历史，文化，政治，地理，认识论和环境维度的场所和空间都明确地构成了他的作品。但是，本文的主要想象力是“流离失所”，这是他的批判性和诗意性交往的特征，家庭，乡村，旅行，知识，生态，行动主义的问题和悖论。Kinsella的著作从多个角度剖析了澳大利亚历史和意识的不安定性，但同时也从国际和跨国角度构想了这些国家层面。Kinsella始终关注在撰写任何地点，所有社会和生物环境的谈判中，生动地展现出地方，归属和“国际区域主义”。此外，他的作品反映了激进主义的知识政治，它认识到，需要广泛的本地知识来批判“学习”和特权学习机构的话语，而这些学习和话语不能承认那些无法获得表达其“本地”知识相关性的手段的社区的知识对他们自己以及对整个世界来说都是至关重要的。同时，这种批判性话语被流离失所的情感现实所笼罩，永远无法待在家里。