Research Catalog

Polities and poetics : race relations and reconciliation in Australian literature

Title
Polities and poetics : race relations and reconciliation in Australian literature / Adelle Sefton-Rowston.
Author
Sefton-Rowston, Adelle
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang Publishing, [2021]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

TextUse in library JFE 21-8721Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Details

Description
214 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
"A wave of reconciliation hit Australia during the 1990s, seeing significant marches, speeches and policies carried out across the country. Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians began imagining race relations in new ways, and articulations of place, belonging, and being together were informing literature of a unique genre. This book explores the political and poetic paradigms of reconciliation represented in Australian writing. The author brings together textual evidence of themes and a vernacular contributing to the emergent genre of 'reconciliatory literature'. The concourse of resistance and reconciliation is explored as a complex process to understanding sovereignty, colonial history, and the future of society. But 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. The effect of polemical writing is powerful and it is measured in this debut collection of scholarly work"--
Series Statement
Cultural identity studies, 1661-3252 ; vol. 32
Uniform Title
Cultural identity studies ; v. 32.
Subject
  • Australian literature > History and criticism
  • Cultural pluralism in literature
  • Cultural pluralism > Australia
  • Race relations in literature
  • Race relations
  • Reconciliation in literature
  • Reconciliation
  • Australian literature
  • Cultural pluralism
  • Australia
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
JFE 21-8721
ISBN
  • 9781788744546
  • 1788744543
LCCN
  • 2019019935
  • 40030730287
OCLC
1103536419
Author
Sefton-Rowston, Adelle, author.
Title
Polities and poetics : race relations and reconciliation in Australian literature / Adelle Sefton-Rowston.
Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang Publishing, [2021]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Cultural identity studies, 1661-3252 ; vol. 32
Cultural identity studies ; v. 32.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Form:
ebook version : 9781788744560
Other Standard Identifier
40030730287
Research Call Number
JFE 21-8721
View in Legacy Catalog