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Author's note: (for Kath Walker, now Oodgeroo Noonuccal)
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A Climate of Hope
2017
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criticism
— Appears in: Le Simplegadi , November vol. 17 no. 2017; (p. 19-34)Postcolonial ecocriticism has emerged gradually over the last couple of decades as the differences between postcolonialism and environmentalism have been overcome. Those differences have centred on an assumed conflict in the way the two discourses see the world. However, the colonial roots of environmental degradation and the growing postcolonial critique of the effects of imperialism have seen a growing alliance focused in the discipline of postcolonial ecocriticism. Postcolonial critique and environmentalism have found common interest in the role of imperialism and capitalism in the rapidly degrading anthropocene. However critique has not often led to a clear vision of a possible world. This paper suggests a new alliance – between postcolonial critique, environmentalism and utopianism – one that emerges from the postcolonial realisation the no transformation can occur without the hope inspired by a vision of the future. The paper asks what literature can do in an environmental struggle in which colonized peoples environmental struggle in which colonized peoples are among the worst affected. The role of postcolonial literature provides a model for the transformative function of the creative spirit in political resistance. No true resistance can succeed without a vision of change and literature provides the most powerful location of that vision – no transformation can occur unless it is first imagined.
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The Moving Image of Place : Judith Wright
2009
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criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 141-163) -
Networks and Shadows : The Public Sisterhood of Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Judith Wright
2009
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— Appears in: Literary Activists : Australian Writer-Intellectuals and Public Life 2009; (p. 60-77) -
Just Poetry
2008
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— Appears in: Just Words? : Australian Authors Writing for Justice 2008; (p. 47-61) Ethical Investigations : Essays on Australian Literature and Poetics 2008; (p. 177-193) -
'An Entangled Kind of Haunting' : Judith Wright and Uncanny Australia
2008
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criticism
— Appears in: Philament , December no. 13 2008; (p. 1-19) 'Ken Gelder and Jane Jacobs' Uncanny Australia (1998), along with Judith Wright's poetry, analyses and responds to the Australian ghost story. Wright does this through poeticised connections of land, history and family and Gelder-Jacobs through postcolonial criticism. This paper investigates how a combined reading of the two can offer new insights into Australian ghost stories and the poetics of haunting' (Philament editors: Bernadette Cantrall, Dreu Harrison and James McLeod).
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A Wild Sound, Wild Wound: Some Thoughts on Judith Wright
2007
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criticism
— Appears in: Local Global , no. 3 2007; (p. 42-51) Coming from an American perspective, Laurie Kutchins enters into the 'power and beauty and moving image' of Judith 'Wright's poetry. Her plea is to keep Wright's poems 'mysterious, opalescent and vulnerable' and to allow them to 'bind us into a deeper seeing, an older ear. Let them conjure ghosts and cry a wild sound that wanes yet ever haunts.' -
'An Entangled Kind of Haunting' : Judith Wright and Uncanny Australia
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Philament , December no. 13 2008; (p. 1-19) 'Ken Gelder and Jane Jacobs' Uncanny Australia (1998), along with Judith Wright's poetry, analyses and responds to the Australian ghost story. Wright does this through poeticised connections of land, history and family and Gelder-Jacobs through postcolonial criticism. This paper investigates how a combined reading of the two can offer new insights into Australian ghost stories and the poetics of haunting' (Philament editors: Bernadette Cantrall, Dreu Harrison and James McLeod).
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Just Poetry
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Just Words? : Australian Authors Writing for Justice 2008; (p. 47-61) Ethical Investigations : Essays on Australian Literature and Poetics 2008; (p. 177-193) -
Networks and Shadows : The Public Sisterhood of Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Judith Wright
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Literary Activists : Australian Writer-Intellectuals and Public Life 2009; (p. 60-77) -
The Moving Image of Place : Judith Wright
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Intimate Horizons : The Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature 2009; (p. 141-163)