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- ISBN 9781788744546
- Weight: 341g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jul 2021
- Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
Adelle Sefton-Rowston lives on Larrakia country and lectures at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory. She is a Fulbright scholar and an award winning essayist. Adelle is president of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association.
