Jeanine Leane's counter-reading of Australian historical and cultural memory locally and internationally

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ID2179531
AuthorsDanica Čerče (0000-0002-2135-3003)
Year2022
Volume58
Issue1
Pages65-79
Publication date2022-01-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449855.2021.2005322
OpenAlexW4214924308
LanguageEN
References cited14

Rooted in nationally defined conditions and primarily addressing its immediate audience of Indigenous and white Australians, Australian Indigenous literature performs an important role in the articulation of Indigenous peoples’ protest, constituting an indictment of white Australian colonial ideology, recuperation of neglected Aboriginal history, and a call for redefining blackness. However, despite its preoccupation with local and national, this literature is also a component of world literature in the sense that it raises ethical questions about societal, political and cultural violence and abuse that continue to haunt all societies in the 21st century. Focused on the poetry collection of Wiradjuri poet Jeanine Leane (2010) Dark Secrets: After Dreaming (AD) 1887–1961, this article demonstrates how Leane confronts assumptions about the irreducible division between empowered and disempowered cultures. It argues that, despite the plurality of cultural responses to colonial pressure, Leane’s verse deals with wider themes and provides spaces for cross-cultural relationality

Aesthetics · Art · Articulation (sociology · Colonialism · Historical trauma · Ideology · Indictment · Indigenous · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · White (mutation · Australian History and Society · Irish and British Studies · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology · Gender Studies · History · Law

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