Read horizontally rather than vertically, Winton's book reveals an interest in what he calls "an emotional deepening" (168), a new sense of relatedness that acknowledges the damage done to the Indigenous population at the same time that it honours the contribution of the rightful inhabitants of Australia to the current national narrative, creating, in this way, possible openings for non-Indigenous belonging. Complementarily, a palimpsestuous approach to the text evinces the emergence, among the traces of white nationalism, of a new pattern in Winton's latest additions to his palimpsest of a nation in Island Home.
A palimpsestic reading of Island Home along the lines of Abraham and Torok's reflections on mourning and loss, more specifically their theory of the psychic crypt, throws light on Winton's "inexpressible mourning" (Abraham and Torok 130) for the loss of an unshaken pre-apology Australianness. Tom Winton AuthorFlushing (NY) High School.
Sarah Dillon's distinction between the palimpsestic and the palimpsestuous, which draws on Foucault's own differentiation between the workings of archaeology and genealogy respectively, provides the wider frame. Author of eight bestselling books including Four Days with Hemingways Ghost and Beyond Nostalgia.
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