Writing to perform the region: making ‘somewhereness’ visible in post-colonisation Australia
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Article Title | Writing to perform the region: making ‘somewhereness’ visible in post-colonisation Australia |
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ERA Journal ID | 35836 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Palmer, Jane |
Journal Title | TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses |
Journal Citation | 23 (Special 54), pp. 1-13 |
Number of Pages | 13 |
Year | 2019 |
Publisher | Australasian Association of Writing Programs |
Place of Publication | Australia |
ISSN | 1327-9556 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.52086/001c.25449 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue54/content.htm |
Abstract | The regions that colonisers know are not generally those of most importance to First Nations people, although the territorial divisions of government administration have had a huge impact on First Nations people in terms of the kinds of policies directed at them and the implementation of those policies. In this paper, I look first at the ways in which Aboriginal experience in Australia has been written out of the landscape, then at some non-territorial ways of looking at such landscapes. I then discuss how a non-Indigenous writer, in working with First Nations people, might help to make visible a different kind of ‘region’. |
Keywords | colonisation, Aboriginal land rights, regionalism, Indigenous Australians, writing from the regions |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 440107. Social and cultural anthropology |
450599. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, society and community not elsewhere classified | |
360201. Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting) | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | Centre for Heritage and Culture |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q551w/writing-to-perform-the-region-making-somewhereness-visible-in-post-colonisation-australia
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