Dorothee Klein (University of Stuttgart)

Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first sustained study of the politics of form in contemporary Australian Aboriginal fiction. Poetics and Politics of Relationality investigates how narratives by Kim Scott, Alexis Wright, Bruce Pascoe, and Tara June Winch employ formal devices to emphasise the significance of relations with the environment.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9781032117119
• ISBN-10: 1032117117
• Artikelnr.: 67826257

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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