Decolonising Ngannelong: A geocritical approach to Joan Lindsay’s picnic at hanging rock and its visual adaptations

Abstract

The study involves close readings of Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging RockFootnote1 and its visual adaptations from a postcolonial feminist and geocritical theoretical framework to analyse how the space operate as a hegemonic tool in reproducing dominance based on gender, race, caste, class, and ethnicity. The comparative study will help to understand the ways in which adaptations of a source narrative to different media modify the landscape and space thereby shifting the gender equations as well. Lindsay’s novel has adaptations (all eponymous) produced during different time periods.