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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Australasian Association of Writing Programs
2019
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| Online Access: | https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q551w/writing-to-perform-the-region-making-somewhereness-visible-in-post-colonisation-australia https://research.usq.edu.au/download/6fdaf8374dd55704773cab954d68ed5357d2024fb663513c2b69bec2ec34305d/250692/Palmer.pdf https://doi.org/10.52086/001c.25449 |
| 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’. |
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