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Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature
multi chapter work
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'A reconciliation movement spread across Australia during the 1990s, bringing significant marches, speeches, and policies across the country. Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians began imagining race relations in new ways and articulations of place, belonging, and being together began informing literature of a unique new genre. This book explores the political and poetic paradigms of reconciliation represented in Australian writing of this period. The author brings together textual evidence of themes and a vernacular contributing to the emergent genre of reconciliatory literature. The nexus between resistance and reconciliation is explored as a complex process to understanding sovereignty, colonial history, and the future of society. 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.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Notes
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Author's note: This book is dedicated to those closest to me - it is their unconditional love that keeps me buoyant at the deepest crossings of my life.
Contents
- Introduction : Auxiliaries in the Construction of New Worlds, single work criticism (p. 1-14)
- Reconciliation Has a History, single work criticism (p. 15-48)
- A "Place" for Reconciliation in Australian Writing, single work criticism (p. 49-74)
- It's Not Black and White : Migrant Australians and Reconciliation, single work criticism (p. 75-118)
- Reconciliation as Embodiment : Knowing the Other through Touch and Emotion, single work criticism (p. 119-156)
- Reconciliation as a Discourse on Belief and One of Belief Itself : Exploring Alexis Wright's Carpentaria, single work criticism (p. 157-186)
- Not a Conclusion : An Exploration of What Continues to Be Reconciled, single work criticism (p. 187-198)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Review of Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature by Adelle Sefton-Rowston
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , 30 September vol. 37 no. 2 2022;
— Review of Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature 2022 multi chapter work criticism'Notwithstanding criticism of the project or process of reconciliation, literary scholars have continued to use it as a productive framework for analysing (mostly) non-Indigenous authored novels of the 1990s and 2000s. This monograph also embraces reconciliation as a framework, though it expands that frame in two ways. First, it looks beyond the novel to also incorporate an eclectic range of memoirs, poetry and fictional and non-fictional stories within a more broadly defined ‘reconciliatory literature’. Second, Indigenous-authored texts are also examined here as reconciliatory. The author sees an empowering role for literature in seeking to explore ‘how creative writing can “do” reconciliation’. Each of the five analytical chapters concentrates on a major ‘trope of reconciliation’ in Australian writing from the period 1990–2010.' (Introduction)
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Review of Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature by Adelle Sefton-Rowston
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , 30 September vol. 37 no. 2 2022;
— Review of Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature 2022 multi chapter work criticism'Notwithstanding criticism of the project or process of reconciliation, literary scholars have continued to use it as a productive framework for analysing (mostly) non-Indigenous authored novels of the 1990s and 2000s. This monograph also embraces reconciliation as a framework, though it expands that frame in two ways. First, it looks beyond the novel to also incorporate an eclectic range of memoirs, poetry and fictional and non-fictional stories within a more broadly defined ‘reconciliatory literature’. Second, Indigenous-authored texts are also examined here as reconciliatory. The author sees an empowering role for literature in seeking to explore ‘how creative writing can “do” reconciliation’. Each of the five analytical chapters concentrates on a major ‘trope of reconciliation’ in Australian writing from the period 1990–2010.' (Introduction)
- Carpentaria 2006 single work novel
- Home 2004 single work novel
- Lighting the Way : Reconciliation Stories 2002 selected work biography
- Craft for a Dry Lake 2000 single work autobiography
- Love Like Water 2007 single work novel
- Every Secret Thing 2008 selected work short story
- Earth 2001 single work novel
- Convincing Ground : Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country 2007 single work prose
- True Country 1993 single work novel
- That Deadman Dance 2010 single work novel
- The Fig Tree 2002 selected work autobiography prose extract
