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Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention, 1796-1945

Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention, 1796-1945

Farrell, Michael

Hardcover

Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 113748571X
ISBN13: 9781137485717
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 22 2015
Pages: 223
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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