Speaking the Earth's languages [electronic resource] : a theory for Australian-Chilean postcolonial poetics / Stuart Cooke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooke, Stuart.

Series:

Cross/cultures ; 159.

Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ; 159

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian poetry--History and criticism.

Australian poetry.

Chilean poetry--History and criticism.

Chilean poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 poetics. Incisive re-readings of two icons of Australian and Chilean poetry, Judith Wright (1915–2000) and Pablo Neruda (1904–1973), provide rich insights into non-indigenous responses to colonization in the wake of modernity. The second half of the book establishes compositional links between Aboriginal and Mapuche poetics, and between such oral and written poetics more generally. The book’s final part develops an ‘emerging synthesis’ of contemporary Aboriginal and Mapuche poetics, with reference to the work of two of the most important avant-garde Aboriginal and Mapuche poets of recent times, Lionel Fogarty (1958–) and Paulo Huirimilla (1973–). Speaking the Earth’s Languages uses these fascinating links between Aboriginal and Mapuche poetics as the basis of a deliberately nomadic, open-ended theory for an Australian–Chilean postcolonial poetics. “The central argument of this book,” the author writes, “is that a nomadic poetics is essential for a genuinely postcolonial form of habitation, or a habitation of colonized landscapes that doesn’t continue to replicate colonialist ideologies involving indigenous dispossession and environmental exploitation.”

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Where to Begin?

Judith Wright and the Limits of Her Tradition

Pablo Neruda and Complex Topography

Reading Complexity

Leonel Lienlaf and the Potential of Song

Paddy Roe’s Nomad Poetics

The Non-Limited Locality: Paulo Huirimilla with Lionel Fogarty

Imagining Syntheses

Coda

An Introduction to Mapuche Poetry

“Ríos de cisnes,” by Paulo Huirimilla

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0916-2

OCLC:

830109366

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401209168 DOI