The Ocular Paradigm of Frontier Fiction

The Ocular Paradigm of Frontier Fiction cites ocular language as a theoretical model for describing and interpreting a discourse of earlier period New Zealand novels of colonial diaspora. Here the settler novel’s contextualization of literary culture, new media theory and contemporary art forms specific reference to Caroline Jones’s Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology and Art (2006) and Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratisation of the Senses (2005). As an illustration of settler diaspora The Ocular Paradigm’s critique of Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s nineteenth-century tract A View of the Art of Colonisation (1849) explores grand historical implications of speculative utopianism and spatial contestability among borderlinings of new identity associated with New Zealand/Aotearoa’s geographically distant regime.