Casting Suspect Humans in the Australian Settler State, 1788-1914
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"Breathtakingly original, well-researched, and written in crystalline prose, this is a book that is at once epic and microscopic: it is a history of the construction and representation of bodily anomaly told through the stories of those who transgressed the bounds of 'normality.' There's little doubt that Kennedy's book will be a go-to text for scholars in the fields of cultural studies, literature, history, Indigenous studies, art history, and critical theory for years to come."
— Alecia Simmonds, Associate Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia
This book presents a cultural history of representation in the Australian settler state, tracing how certain bodies were cast as curious, deviant, or monstrous between 1788 and the early twentieth century. Drawing on case studies from courtrooms, exhibition culture, newspapers, photography, and popular literature, the book examines the making of bodily 'types' at the intersection of race, gender, class, and stigmatised embodiment. It brings into dialogue representations of Aboriginal cultural brokers and white settler subjects marked as anomalous, revealing both the coercive force and inherent instability of colonial tropes. Original and interdisciplinary, this book makes a significant contribution to Australian history, settler colonial studies, disability history, and the cultural history of embodiment.
Patricia Kennedy is an Australian writer who gained her PhD in Australian History at the University of New South Wales in 2024.
This book presents a cultural history of representation in the Australian settler state, tracing how certain bodies were cast as curious, deviant, or monstrous between 1788 and the early twentieth century. Drawing on case studies from courtrooms, exhibition culture, newspapers, photography, and popular literature, the book examines the making of bodily 'types' at the intersection of race, gender, class, and stigmatised embodiment. It brings into dialogue representations of Aboriginal cultural brokers and white settler subjects marked as anomalous, revealing both the coercive force and inherent instability of colonial tropes. Original and interdisciplinary, this book makes a significant contribution to Australian history, settler colonial studies, disability history, and the cultural history of embodiment.
Sheds light on perceptions of race, gender and disability in colonial Australia Applies an intersectional lens to the cultural construction of human identities through wide-ranging case studies Recovers lost histories, and casts a fresh lens on historical figures who have already been extensively investigated
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Patricia Kennedy
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Australian settler state Press history Colonial Australia Indigenous history Aboriginal Convicts Race Disability Resistance Feminism Aboriginal women Fairground Intersectionality Voyeurism Monstrosity