Abstract

This article attempts an experimental mode to ply the depths of a text’s relationship with its circumstances of production. Deploying an immersive praxis, the analysis aims to activate the autonomy of the short story ‘The Quest of Yar Khan’ through a rich engagement with its materiality, particularly its named geography. Revealing the text’s context in this way offers an opportunity to refresh the view of South Asia in peri-Federation Australia, a circumstance of which this short story is part.

Highlights

  • Postgraduate Award when writing and researching an earlier version of this article, as a chapter of her PhD thesis

  • The matter of concern is the world of South Asia in peri-Federation Australia, and the ‘object’ of immersion is the short story ‘The Quest of Yar Khan’

  • Later these reports were questioned, with rumours that he had fled and later resurged appearing in the colonial press in 1896.52 Recent Ndebele narratives state that Lobengula was neither killed by the British, nor a victim of small pox, and was certainly not poisoned by his own hand, as had been suggested.53. Instead he escaped and according to the Ndebele, without capture of their king, the Ndebele were never defeated by the British.54. Here in this Christmas story ‘Yar Khan’, it’s all about tea farming, and the location is incidental, and the fighting is expressed as an irritation (‘over and over’) that’s imbued with the glee of a prize: the farm

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Postgraduate Award when writing and researching an earlier version of this article, as a chapter of her PhD thesis.

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