Author

Publication

2013 - Rodopi B.V. Editions

Language

English

Word Count

88,250 words, Guess

Page Count

353 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789401209168
  • ISBN-109401209162
  • Library of Congress Control Number2013363631
  • OCLC Control Number830109366
  • Better World Books9789401209168
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Classifications

  • LCCPN56.P555 C66 2013

Description

Speaking the Earth's Languages brings together for the first time critical discussions of postcolonial poetics from Australia and Chile. The book crosses multiple languages, landscapes, and disciplines, 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 understanding Aboriginal or Mapuche writing practices but, more widely, for the problems confronting contemporary literature and politics in colonized landscapes.The book begins by critiquing canonical examples of non-indigenous postcolonial poetic

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Speaking the Earth's Languages: A Theory for Australian-Chilean Postcolonial PoeticsRodopi B.V. Editions2013-01-01

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