Speaking the Earth's Languages A Theory for Australian-Chilean Postcolonial Poetics

Name: Speaking the Earth's Languages A Theory for Australian-Chilean Postcolonial Poetics
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ISBN: 9789042036482

ISBN-10: 9042036486

ISBN-13: 9789042036482

Edition: 2013

Authors: Stuart Cooke

List price: $138.00

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Speaking the Earth's Languages brings together for the first time critical dis-cussions of postcolonial poetics from Australia and Chile. The book crosses multiple languages, landscapes, and dis-ciplines, 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 under-standing Aboriginal or Mapuche writing practices but, more widely, for the prob-lems confronting contemporary literature and politics in colonized landscapes. The book begins by critiquing canon-ical examples of non-indigenous post-colonial poetics. Incisive re-readings of two icons of Australian and Chilean poetry, Judith Wright…

Book details

List price: $138.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: BRILL
Publication date: 1/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 337
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.91" long x 0.37" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English