Tim Winton’s Pneumatic Materialism

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The somatic effects of empire can be found in Tim Winton’s “pneumatic materialism”, an aesthetic preoccupation in his novels with moments of anoxia, or the deprivation of oxygen to the brain. This essay will consider how Winton's novel engage with pneumatic materialism in response to questions of uneven development traditionally associated with the Global South, thereby disrupting clear South–North distinctions. By blurring his concerns across the North–South divide, Winton shows a willingness to think of empire as a series of relations that are not bound by national or territorial borders so much as by substances in the air. He does this, I argue, in his use of the breath.

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Rose, A. (2020). Tim Winton’s Pneumatic Materialism. Interventions, 22(5), 641–656. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1715819

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