Writing home : walking, literature and belonging in Australia's red centre

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The work Writing home : walking, literature and belonging in Australia's red centre represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Writing home : walking, literature and belonging in Australia's red centre

Title remainder

walking, literature and belonging in Australia's red centre

Statement of responsibility

Glenn Morrison

Creator

• Morrison, Glenn

Author

• Morrison, Glenn

Subject

• Australian
• Belonging (Social psychology) -- Central Australia
• Culture - Relationship to place
• Culture - Theory and criticism - Postcolonial
• Essays
• Geography
• Aboriginal Australians -- Australia, Central -- Social life and customs
• Literature and society -- Australia, Central
• Literature and stories
• Music - Vocal
• Sites - Dreaming tracks
• Songs, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory
• Literature and society -- Australia
• Australia, Central -- Discovery and exploration

Genre

• Essays

Language

eng

Summary

'Writing Home' argues that frontier no longer adequately describes Central Australia, and the Aboriginal songlines long trivialised by settler Australians' use of the pejorative walkabouts are potentially an important contributor to Australian discourses of hybridity, settler belonging and home. Drawing on anthropology, cultural theory, journalism, politics and philosophy, the work traces perceptions of Australian place and space through six re-counted walking journeys of the Red Centre. The result is something of a biography of the songlines, and a journalism and literary criticism of their cultural and political fracture under European settlement.--

Assigning source

[Lib. Aust. summary]

Cataloging source

ANL

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography