Body and Trunk: Henry Kendall, the Trees, and the Un/makings of Lives

身體與樹幹：亨利．肯德爾，樹木，生命的創造與毀滅

Barbara Holloway

《Tamkang Review》 51卷1期 (2020/12) Pp. 27-55

https://doi.org/10.6184/TKR.202012_51(1).0002

摘要

A great many eucalyptus trees and their understory of shrubs, grasses, and forbs have been destroyed across central New South Wales during non- Aboriginal occupation. Survivors are dotted across paddocks, along roadsides, in clumps on rocky outcrops, in small national parks and at times in generous areas on private land. Arguing for the ongoing power of historical presences, this case study of their background moves between the continuing presence of ancient trees in a small area of land, and the bodily presence, writings, and activities of Henry Kendall (1840-1882), inaugural State Inspector of Forests and most substantial and renowned of colonial Australian poets. This essay explores Kendall's changing lyrical expression-from representing European activities as bringing devastation and sacrifice to environment and Australian Aboriginal people alike-to a discourse of Europeanized agri-pastoral productivity, heroism and nation-building vision. It engages with Kendall's political and aesthetic sensibilities to end with the ambivalent non-literary presence he left as State Inspector, celebrity and semi-invalid as he travelled among the trees and European communities of south-western NSW.

關鍵字

Henry Kendall ； Lyricism ； Wiradjuri ； Dispossession ； Eucalypts ； Ringbarking ； History of NSW Forests

並列摘要

在非土著佔領期間，澳洲西南威爾斯中部許多尤加利樹與下層植物包括灌木，青草，闊葉雜草被大量砍伐摧毀。零星殘存者目前僅見於圍籬內，公路邊，或散落岩石旁小樹叢，以及小小國家公園或繁茂生長於私人園地。本文探討澳洲殖民時期最知名詩人之一，也是最早期國家森林巡守員亨利．肯德爾（1840－1882），幽遊於僅存的古木參天，寫下的迷人詩句，讓人思索身體與樹幹的互動，以及林木持續的歷史變革。從肯德爾抒情詩句的改變可以見證澳洲林木農業的變化，從最早期對環境及土著的破壞及殘殺到建立歐式農業田園模式，英雄主義以及澳洲國家的建立。本文討論肯德爾政治與美學的特色，思索詩人以一位森林巡守員，名人，也是疾病纏身，在澳洲西南威爾斯林木與歐洲移民社區之間，留下複雜，矛盾的遺產。

並列關鍵字

亨利．肯德爾 ； 抒情詩 ； 澳洲土著瓦拉哲里人 ； 剝奪 ； 尤加利樹 ； 環剝樹皮 ； 澳洲西南威爾斯林業史

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