Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction

Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781000464894
ISBN-13 : 100046489X
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Book Synopsis Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction by : Dorothee Klein

Download or read book Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction written by Dorothee Klein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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