Emily Potter

Writing Belonging at the Millennium (eBook, ePUB)

Notes from the Field on Settler-Colonial Place

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Writing Belonging at the Millennium, Emily Potter critically considers the long-standing settler-colonial pursuit of belonging manifested through an obsession with firm and stable ground. This pursuit continues across the field of the postcolonial nation today; the recognition of colonization's destructive impacts on humans and environments troublingly generates a renewed desire to secure non-indigenous belonging. Focusing on the crucial role that Australia's contemporary literature plays in shaping ideas of place and its inhabitation, Potter tracks non-indigenous belonging claims through a range of fiction and non-fiction texts to examine how settler-colonial anxieties about belonging intersect with intensifying environmental challenges. Significantly, she proposes that new understandings of unsettled and uncertain non-indigenous belonging may actually be fruitful context for decolonizing relations with place - something that is imperative in a time of heightened global environmental crisis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Intellect Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789381030
• Artikelnr.: 57842853

Autorenporträt

Emily Potter is an associate professor in writing and literature in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University.