The life and afterlife of Yagan: A corporeal biography

Shino Konishi

doi:10.4324/9781003351863-12

The life and afterlife of Yagan: A corporeal biography

Shino Konishi

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This chapter aims to reconstruct the life and legacy of the Whadjuk Noongar man Yagan, who, in the two years in which he was known to the British settlers of the Swan River Colony, Western Australia, had become a notorious outlaw who was both widely admired and reviled. Inspired by embodied approaches to biography and new scholarship on speculative biography, this chapter will flesh out his early life, often omitted from biographical studies of him, in order to argue that Yagan’s embodiment reveals much more about him than just his physical appearance and colonial perceptions of it.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Reframing Indigenous Biography
Editors	Shino Kinoshi, Malcolm Allbrook, Tom Griffiths
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	6
Pages	122-156
Number of pages	35
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003351863
ISBN (Print)	9781032398938
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003351863-12
Publication status	Published - 2025

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