Writing to perform the region: Making ‘somewhereness’ visible in post-colonisation Australia

The regions that colonisers know are not generally those of most importance to First Nations people, although the territorial divisions of government administration have had a huge impact on First Nations people in terms of the kinds of policies directed at them and the implementation of those polic...

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Main Author: Palmer, J
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Australasian Association of Writing Programs 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10453/134655
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Summary:The regions that colonisers know are not generally those of most importance to First Nations people, although the territorial divisions of government administration have had a huge impact on First Nations people in terms of the kinds of policies directed at them and the implementation of those policies. In this paper, I look first at the ways in which Aboriginal experience in Australia has been written out of the landscape, then at some non-territorial ways of looking at such landscapes. I then discuss how a non-Indigenous writer, in working with First Nations people, might help to make visible a different kind of ‘region’.