Speaking the Earth's Languages
Subtitle: A Theory for Australian-Chilean Postcolonial Poetics
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9789042036482
Subjects: Postmodernism (literature)
Description: Speaking the Earth's Languages brings together for the first time critical discussions of postcolonial poetics from Australia and Chile. The book crosses multiple languages, landscapes, and disciplines, and draws on a wide range of both oral and written poetries, in order to make strong claims about the importance of 'a nomad poetics' - not only for understanding Aboriginal or Mapuche writing practices but, more widely, for the problems confronting contemporary literature and politics in colonized landscapes.The book begins by critiquing canonical examples of non-indigenous postcolonial poetic