Looking at Gail Jones’s “The Man in the Moon” in Aestheticized Darkness

When the first astronauts landed on moon, they left unfading bootprints its surface, testifying to our human violation of aesthetic and symbolic autonomy. Starting from premise that this lunar invasion has forever scarred making it a carrier loss an embodiment grief, my article seeks examine how Gail Jones, in her own fiction, aestheticizes starry night sky order bring together astronauts’ disfiguration moon’s face with figuration by writers artists very defacement. Through art’s redemptive function destruction, I argue, Jones found way reinstate sense In particular, will focus short story “The Man Moon” addresses possibility creating alternative cosmologies through art. Both essay “Without Stars”, which discusses Blanchot’s The Writing Disaster investigate metaphysics suffering poetics “Five Meditations Moonlit Night”, looks at nature writing aesthetics grief ethics gift, form backdrop exploration.