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The distribution of settlement : appropriation and refusal in Australian literature and culture / Michael R. Griffiths.

The distribution of settlement : appropriation and refusal in Australian literature and culture / Michael R. Griffiths.
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ISBN 9781760800017
1760800015
Author Griffiths, Michael R. (author.)
Title The distribution of settlement : appropriation and refusal in Australian literature and culture / Michael R. Griffiths.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Crawley, Western Australia : UWAP Publishing, 2018.
©2018.
Description 238 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "The Distribution of Settlement is an important milestone in the ongoing conversation between settler and Indigenous literary histories. In its examination of Indigenous opacity and refusal, this book refocuses interest on the ethics of reading and reinvigorates pressing current debates about cross-cultural engagements. It's essential reading for all readers of Australian literature." Associate Professor Anne Brewster, University of New South Wales--back cover.
Settler representations of Indigenous culture and identity weigh heavily on the way Indigenous people tell their stories in the present. These representations affect the way Indigenous writers themselves operate to represent themselves and their people. The rendering visible of Indigenous culture involves a fraught history riven with appropriation, misrepresentation and material and discursive forms of violence. The Distribution of Settlement tells a partial story about the effect of these histories within Australian literature and culture. Tracking such cases of appropriation and misrepresentation in white Australian writing from the middle of the twentieth century, the book also turns to the legacy of these acts on and in contemporary Aboriginal writers as diverse as Kim Scott, Alexis Wright, Tony Birch and Tara June Winch.--back cover.
Subjects Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure
Postcolonialism in literature -- Australia
Cultural property -- Australia
Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity
Aboriginal Australians -- Cultural assimilation
Aboriginal Australian literature
Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors
Call number 2019.103
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