Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0344710

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0344710

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

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

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 20-03-2003

End Date: 31-12-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $60,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Literary Studies | Religion And Society | Australian And New Zealand | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Religion and society |

Other Keywords

Australian And New Zealand | Languages and Literature | Literary Studies | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies | Religion And Society | Religion and society | Understanding Australia'S Past

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