Description
| Product ID: | 9781032117119 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures |
| Title: | Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction |
| Authors: | Author: Dorothee Klein |
| Page Count: | 214 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, History, Colonialism and imperialism, Cultural studies, Anthropology, Social and cultural anthropology, Politics and government, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Humanities, Colonialism & imperialism, Cultural studies, Anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Politics & government, Australasia, Oceania & other land areas, Australia, English |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This is the first sustained study of the politics of form in contemporary Australian Aboriginal fiction. Poetics and Politics of Relationality investigates how narratives by Kim Scott, Alexis Wright, Bruce Pascoe, and Tara June Winch employ formal devices to emphasise the significance of relations with the environment. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-05-31 |
