Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

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Synopsis
Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction 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, it 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.
Copyright:
2022

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
214 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000464894
Related ISBNs:
9781032117119, 9781003129882, 9780367655211
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Dorothee Klein
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Australiana, Social Studies, Language Arts, Politics and Government
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