Aboriginal to Nowhere : Song Cycle of the Post-modern Dispossessed single work   poetry   "The Citizens Netflix & chill in their minimum eight hundred"
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Aboriginal to Nowhere : Song Cycle of the Post-modern Dispossessed
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'In 1948, after many years living with the Wonguri-Mandjigai people, Ronald M. Berndt published an English language translation of a non sacred song of the Sand-fly Clan: the Song Cycle of The Moon-Bone. In 1977 Les Murray wrote his own version based on the Berndt translation The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle, a white man's revision. 2016: Murray’s revision gets a revision, a homosemantic emulation (a translation from English into English retaining the cadence, mood and sound). Aboriginal To Nowhere transgresses Murray’s vision of city folk holidaying on grandma’s farm and signals a contemporary poetry of dispossession and anti-sentiment, ventures into transliminal territory and explores those in-between places of perpetual generational change; it is a text hyperaware of incremental shifts in the semiotic simulation humans call reality.'

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    y separately published work icon The Authorised Theft Papers : Writing, Scholarship, Collaboration The Authorised Theft Papers : Writing, Scholarship, Collaboration : Papers – The Refereed Proceedings Of The 21st Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, 2016 Niloofar Fanaiyan (editor), Rachel Franks (editor), Jessica Seymour (editor), Canberra : The Australasian Association of Writing Programs , 2017 20512298 2017 anthology criticism

    'The 21st annual conference of the AAWP invited writers and academics to respond to the idea that, as writers, we are engaging in a type of ‘authorised theft’. Over 100 delegates responded enthusiastically by presenting papers that straddled genres, disciplines, modes of expression, as well as languages and cultures. Panel topics included sociologies of writing, poetry and song, narrative and narrative modes, responses to pain and trauma, digital literature and the online space, memoir/biography and travel writing, identity and voice, oral storytelling and ways of knowing, as well as translation and cross-cultural encounters.'

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         Canberra : The Australasian Association of Writing Programs , 2017
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