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Polities and poetics : race relations and reconciliation in Australian literature / Adelle Sefton-Rowston

Sefton-Rowston, Adelle [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Oxford ; Bern ; Berlin ; Bruxelles ; New York ; Wien : Peter Lang, [2021]

214 Seiten

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Polities and Poetics / Adelle Sefton-Rowston (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-78874-454-6 (paperback)

978-1-78874-455-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff); 978-1-78874-456-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff); 978-1-78874-457-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2019019935

OCoLC: 1284784825     

HQ 1040      Ähnliche Literatur

PR9605.5.C95

*Australien ; Literatur ; Aborigines <Motiv> ; Versöhnung <Motiv> ; Ethnische Beziehungen <Motiv> ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft <Motiv> ; Geschichte 1990-2021     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Australian literature -- History and criticism ; Cultural pluralism in literature ; Cultural pluralism -- Australia ; Race relations in literature ; Race relations -- Australia ; Reconciliation in literature ; Reconciliation -- Australia

"A wave of reconciliation hit Australia during the 1990s, seeing significant marches, speeches and policies carried out across the country. Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians began imagining race relations in new ways, and articulations of place, belonging, and being together were informing literature of a unique genre. This book explores the political and poetic paradigms of reconciliation represented in Australian writing. The author brings together textual evidence of themes and a vernacular contributing to the emergent genre of 'reconciliatory literature'. The concourse of resistance and reconciliation is explored as a complex process to understanding sovereignty, colonial history, and the future of society. But moreover, this book argues it is creative writing that is most necessary for a deeper understanding of each other, and of place, because it is writing that calls one to witness, to feel, and to imagine all at the same time. The effect of polemical writing is powerful and it is measured in this debut collection of scholarly work"--

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