Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes Of Poetic Invention 1796-1945

by Michael Farrell

2020-12-30 13:42:56

A bold work of synthetic scholarship,Writing Australian Unsettlementargues 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 stoc... Read more
A bold work of synthetic scholarship,Writing Australian Unsettlementargues 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. Less

Book Details

File size8.5 X 5.51 X 0.56 in
Print pages223
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication date September 22, 2015
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781137485717

Compare Prices

Store Availability Book Format Condition Price
Indigo Books & Music In Stock Hard Cover Hard Cover Buy CAD 123.80
Indigo Books & MusicIn Stock
Format
Hard Cover
Condition
Hard Cover
Buy CAD 123.80
Available Discount
No Discount available

Join us and get access to all
your favourite books

Sign up for free and start exploring thousands of eBooks today.

Sign up for free