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Dropbear / Evelyn Araluen.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.4.A7358 D76 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Araluen, Evelyn, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Decolonization--Poetry.
- Decolonization.
- Australian poetry--Aboriginal Australian authors.
- Australian poetry.
- Australian poetry--21st century.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- essays.
- Essays.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 104 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Drop bear
- Place of Publication:
- St Lucia, Queensland, Australia : University of Queensland Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury. Dropbear interrogates the complexities of colonial and personal history with an alternately playful, tender and mournful intertextual voice, deftly navigating the responsibilities that gather from sovereign country, the spectres of memory and the debris of settler-coloniality. This innovative mix of poetry and essay offers an eloquent witness to the entangled present, an uncompromising provocation of history, and an embattled but redemptive hope for a decolonial future.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0702263184
- 9780702263187
- OCLC:
- 1201299264
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