%0 Book
%A Adelle Sefton-Rowston
%D 2021
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9781788744553
%T Polities and Poetics
%B Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature
%R 10.3726/b13624
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1137099
%X 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.
%K reconciliation, Indigenous Australian, Indigenous writing, Australian literature, Indigenous Australian literature
%G English