Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-11711-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 332 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klein, Dorothee

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ozeanische & Austronesische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Towards a Poetics and Politics of Relationality

Chapter 1: Non-Human (Narrative) Authority in Bruce Pascoe’s Earth

Chapter 2: Place-Based Storytelling in Kim Scott’s Benang and That Deadman Dance

Chapter 3: Precarious Relations in Tara June Winch’s Swallow the Air

Chapter 4: Non-Egocentric Relations and Ambiguity in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria

Chapter 5: Travelling Narratives and Community in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book

Chapter 6: Stories, Language, and Sharing in Kim Scott’s Taboo

Conclusion: Experiencing Relationality

Über Autor(innen)

Dorothee Klein is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. She has published articles on Aboriginal life-writing, contemporary Aboriginal fiction and short story cycles, and (cognitive) narratology.