(Re)considering Australian Geography with First Nations Literature - Jeanine Leane’s Walk Back Over
Taking First Nations literature as a point of entry, the aim of this paper is to reconsider Australian geography. Focusing on the poetic collection Walk Back Over by Wiradjuri poet and academic Jeanine Leane, the current study considers the role of culture in our understanding of Australian geograph...
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ftunivsydneyojs:oai:ojs-prod.library.usyd.edu.au:article/16383 2023-12-24T10:16:43+01:00 (Re)considering Australian Geography with First Nations Literature - Jeanine Leane’s Walk Back Over Donovan, Trevor 2023-08-10 application/pdf https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/16383 eng eng Association for the Study of Australian Literature https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/16383/14960 https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/16383 Copyright (c) 2023 Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature; Vol. 23 No. 1 (2023): JASAL 1833-6027 1447-8986 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2023 ftunivsydneyojs 2023-11-29T12:47:34Z Taking First Nations literature as a point of entry, the aim of this paper is to reconsider Australian geography. Focusing on the poetic collection Walk Back Over by Wiradjuri poet and academic Jeanine Leane, the current study considers the role of culture in our understanding of Australian geography, and the central place of vision and visuality in the transmission of geographical knowledge. Reading Walk Back Over requires the reader to look beyond the text, beyond colonial-settler geography in order to see another geography of Australia. In doing so, Jeanine Leane brings into the light another geography and, therefore, another history of the land. Key words : First Nations Literature, Jeanine Leane, Geography, Vision, Culture, Postcolonialism Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations The University of Sydney: Sydney eScholarship Journals online |
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Taking First Nations literature as a point of entry, the aim of this paper is to reconsider Australian geography. Focusing on the poetic collection Walk Back Over by Wiradjuri poet and academic Jeanine Leane, the current study considers the role of culture in our understanding of Australian geography, and the central place of vision and visuality in the transmission of geographical knowledge. Reading Walk Back Over requires the reader to look beyond the text, beyond colonial-settler geography in order to see another geography of Australia. In doing so, Jeanine Leane brings into the light another geography and, therefore, another history of the land. Key words : First Nations Literature, Jeanine Leane, Geography, Vision, Culture, Postcolonialism |
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