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'A Goenpul woman from Minjerribah (Stadbroke Island), Romaine Moreton’s powerful poetry defines Aboriginality in terms of race, class, gender and sexuality. This chapter focuses on the concept of “indigenous sovereignty” with a collateral drive towards identifying the tropes of “blackness” that Moreton deployed in her poems. The chapter looks at the issue of “racism” in Moreton’s poetry by keeping in mind the theoretical engagements of “whiteness studies” that tend to problematise the black/white relation. In other words, the critical reception of Moreton’s poetry can be subjected to a relative assessment of the significance of white and indigenous readership negotiated through a complex web of indigenous or quasi-indigenous productions.'

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    y separately published work icon Claiming Space for Australian Women's Writing Devaleena Das (editor), Sanjukta Dasgupta (editor), London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2017 13603502 2017 anthology criticism

    'This volume explores the subterfuges, strategies, and choices that Australian women writers have navigated in order to challenge patriarchal stereotypes and assert themselves as writers of substance. Contextualized within the pioneering efforts of white, Aboriginal, and immigrant Australian women in initiating an alternative literary tradition, the text captures a wide range of multiracial Australian women authors’ insightful reflections on crucial issues such as war and silent mourning, emergence of a Australian national heroine, racial purity and Aboriginal motherhood, communism and activism, feminist rivalry, sexual transgressions, autobiography and art of letter writing, city space and female subjectivity, lesbianism, gender implications of spatial categories, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation and female body politics. Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing tracks Australian women authors’ varied journeys across cultural, political and racial borders in the canter of contemporary political discourse.'

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         London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2017     pg. 261-273
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