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Book Publication – Klein

1 Nov 2021
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It is our pleasure to announce that Dorothee Klein‘s book ›Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction‹ has been published!

Dorothee Klein

Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction

Routledge 2021
ISBN 9780367655211

About the book:

This is the first sustained study of the formal particularities of works by Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright. Drawing on a rich theoretical framework that includes approaches to relationality by Aboriginal thinkers, Edouard Glissant, and Jean-Luc Nancy, and recent work in New Formalism and narrative theory, the book illustrates how they use a broad range of narrative techniques to mediate, negotiate, and temporarily create networks of relations that interlink all elements of the universe. Through this focus on relationality, Aboriginal writing gains both local and global significance. Locally, these narratives assert Indigenous sovereignty by staging an unbroken interrelatedness of people and their land. Globally, they intervene into current discourses about humanity’s relationship with the natural environment, urging readers to acknowledge our interrelatedness with and dependence on the land that sustains us.

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