Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction Hardback
by Dorothee (University of Stuttgart) Klein
Part of the Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures series
Hardback
Description
This is the first sustained study of the formal particularities of works by Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright.
Drawing on a rich theoretical framework that includes approaches to relationality by Aboriginal thinkers, Edouard Glissant, and Jean-Luc Nancy, and recent work in New Formalism and narrative theory, the book illustrates how they use a broad range of narrative techniques to mediate, negotiate, and temporarily create networks of relations that interlink all elements of the universe.
Through this focus on relationality, Aboriginal writing gains both local and global significance.
Locally, these narratives assert Indigenous sovereignty by staging an unbroken interrelatedness of people and their land.
Globally, they intervene into current discourses about humanity’s relationship with the natural environment, urging readers to acknowledge our interrelatedness with and dependence on the land that sustains us.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:214 pages, 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:29/10/2021
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- ISBN:9780367655211
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:214 pages, 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:29/10/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367655211
