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'A reconciliation movement spread across Australia during the 1990s, bringing significant marches, speeches, and policies across the country. Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians began imagining race relations in new ways and articulations of place, belonging, and being together began informing literature of a unique new genre. This book explores the political and poetic paradigms of reconciliation represented in Australian writing of this period. The author brings together textual evidence of themes and a vernacular contributing to the emergent genre of reconciliatory literature. The nexus between resistance and reconciliation is explored as a complex process to understanding sovereignty, colonial history, and the future of society. Moreover, this book argues it is creative writing that is most necessary for a deeper understanding of each other and of place, because it is writing that calls one to witness, to feel, and to imagine all at the same time.'

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Notes

  • Author's note: This book is dedicated to those closest to me - it is their unconditional love that keeps me buoyant at the deepest crossings of my life.

Contents

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Introduction : Auxiliaries in the Construction of New Worlds, Adelle Sefton-Rowston , single work criticism (p. 1-14)
Reconciliation Has a History, Adelle Sefton-Rowston , single work criticism (p. 15-48)
A "Place" for Reconciliation in Australian Writing, Adelle Sefton-Rowston , single work criticism (p. 49-74)
It's Not Black and White : Migrant Australians and Reconciliation, Adelle Sefton-Rowston , single work criticism (p. 75-118)
Reconciliation as Embodiment : Knowing the Other through Touch and Emotion, Adelle Sefton-Rowston , single work criticism (p. 119-156)
Reconciliation as a Discourse on Belief and One of Belief Itself : Exploring Alexis Wright's Carpentaria, Adelle Sefton-Rowston , single work criticism (p. 157-186)
Not a Conclusion : An Exploration of What Continues to Be Reconciled, Adelle Sefton-Rowston , single work criticism (p. 187-198)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Oxford, Oxfordshire,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Peter Lang ,       2022 .
      image of person or book cover 1717113313170713437.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: x, 220p.p.
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      • Published July 2021.
      ISBN: 9781788744546 (pbk), 9781788744577 (mobi), 9781788744560 (epub), 9781788744553 (PDF)
      Series: y separately published work icon Cultural Identity Studies New York (City) Oxford : Peter Lang , 2006- 8153285 2006 series - publisher criticism Number in series: 32
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Works about this Work

A Reconciled Landscape Review Verity Oswin , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 28 no. 1 2024;
— Review of Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature Adelle Sefton-Rowston , 2022 multi chapter work criticism 'Adelle Sefton-Rowston’s book Polities and Poetics – Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature is based upon her doctoral thesis and examines the role of language in bringing about social change. The author, a senior lecturer at Charles Darwin University, builds her argument through close textual readings of what she labels “reconciliatory literature” (p. 9).' (Introduction)
Review of Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature by Adelle Sefton-Rowston Geoff Rodoreda , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , 30 September vol. 37 no. 2 2022;
— Review of Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature Adelle Sefton-Rowston , 2022 multi chapter work criticism

'Notwithstanding criticism of the project or process of reconciliation, literary scholars have continued to use it as a productive framework for analysing (mostly) non-Indigenous authored novels of the 1990s and 2000s. This monograph also embraces reconciliation as a framework, though it expands that frame in two ways. First, it looks beyond the novel to also incorporate an eclectic range of memoirs, poetry and fictional and non-fictional stories within a more broadly defined ‘reconciliatory literature’. Second, Indigenous-authored texts are also examined here as reconciliatory. The author sees an empowering role for literature in seeking to explore ‘how creative writing can “do” reconciliation’. Each of the five analytical chapters concentrates on a major ‘trope of reconciliation’ in Australian writing from the period 1990–2010.' (Introduction)
Review of Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature by Adelle Sefton-Rowston Geoff Rodoreda , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , 30 September vol. 37 no. 2 2022;
— Review of Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature Adelle Sefton-Rowston , 2022 multi chapter work criticism

'Notwithstanding criticism of the project or process of reconciliation, literary scholars have continued to use it as a productive framework for analysing (mostly) non-Indigenous authored novels of the 1990s and 2000s. This monograph also embraces reconciliation as a framework, though it expands that frame in two ways. First, it looks beyond the novel to also incorporate an eclectic range of memoirs, poetry and fictional and non-fictional stories within a more broadly defined ‘reconciliatory literature’. Second, Indigenous-authored texts are also examined here as reconciliatory. The author sees an empowering role for literature in seeking to explore ‘how creative writing can “do” reconciliation’. Each of the five analytical chapters concentrates on a major ‘trope of reconciliation’ in Australian writing from the period 1990–2010.' (Introduction)
A Reconciled Landscape Review Verity Oswin , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 28 no. 1 2024;
— Review of Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature Adelle Sefton-Rowston , 2022 multi chapter work criticism 'Adelle Sefton-Rowston’s book Polities and Poetics – Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature is based upon her doctoral thesis and examines the role of language in bringing about social change. The author, a senior lecturer at Charles Darwin University, builds her argument through close textual readings of what she labels “reconciliatory literature” (p. 9).' (Introduction)
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