Writing Australian Unsettlement

Modes of Poetic Invention, 1796-1945
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-48571-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 223 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3992 g

Reihe: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

A bold work of synthetic scholarship, Writing Australian Unsettlement argues that the history of Australian literature contains the rough beginnings of a new literacy. Michael Farrell reads songs, letters and visual poems by Indigenous farmers and stockmen, the unpunctuated journals of early settler women, drover tree-messages and carved clubs, and a meta-commentary on settlement from Moore River (the place escaped from in The Rabbit-Proof Fence) in order to rethink old forms. The book borrows the figure of the assemblage to suggest the active and revisable nature of Australian writing, arguing against the "settling" effects of its prior editors, anthologists, and historians. Avoiding the advancement of a new canon, Farrell offers instead an unsettled space in which to rethink Australian writing.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Farrell, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Englisch, Englische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Farrell is the editor of Slope Magazine.