- Title
- Sappho in Australia and New Zealand
- Creator
- Johnson, Marguerite
- Relation
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho p. 408-423
- Relation
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Sappho’s Antipodean reincarnations are not as extensive as they are in Europe and the United States. Nevertheless, what is fascinating about Australasian Sapphos is their manifestations in several familiar forms. This survey examines the main tropes of the Sappho legacy in Australasia with attention to the different forms of reception and their reasons, from the early colonial period to the twenty-first century. From the ensconcement of her portrait in a settler’s home in Tasmania in 1825, to other unexpected references in newspapers throughout the nineteenth century, to the art érotique of the twentieth-century bohemians, Sappho, like many other classical icons, has inscribed a sense of belonging among white Australasians – not always in relation to their new home, but to the motherland. Amid the turbulence of the convict years (1788–1868), to the Federation of Australia in 1901, through the two World Wars, followed by second-wave feminism, to the present, Sappho shape-shifts in step with the historical processes of establishing, altering, and challenging both national and personal identities.
- Subject
- Sappho; ancient greece; poetry; Australia; New Zealand; sculpture
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1433635
- Identifier
- uon:39310
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781316638774
- Language
- eng
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