'This is Dog Country': Reading off Coetzee in Alex Miller's Journey to the Stone Country

摘要: This article explores how Alex Miller excavates the terrain of animal mined by JM Coetzee in Disgrace , to reconsider Australian belongings post-Mabo. It distinguishes Miller's interventions from Coetzee's, while noting that Coetzee's animals are part a wider consideration limits sympathetic imagination encountering alterity, with peculiar resonances locations novel encapsulates some challenges reconfiguring across difference facing intractability locations. His dogs suggest deleterious effects particular mode occupation pastoralism, his wild bulls denote more elusive form habitation, attuned contingencies place post-Mabo, but formed out traumatic rememory hidden histories pastoralism. Dogs and cattle linked work too focus on nature appeal suffering makes human. is, I argue, still preoccupied as repository allegory metaphor, various historical an index indigeneity. means configuration risks repeating well illustrating settler tropes indigene striating colonial racism. modulation idea sacrificial or scapegoat configure pastoralism its dying throes foregrounds failure exhaustion one engagement can facilitate beginnings ethically directed encounter alterity.