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15 - Australian Poets in the Countries of Others

from Part IV - Embodied Poetics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2024

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Louis Klee
Edited by
Ann Vickery
Ann Vickery
Affiliation:
Deakin University, Victoria
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The chapter outlines the mid-twentieth century debate over an Athenian-Boeotian divide in Australian literature, which extended an earlier false dichotomy between city and the bush through distinguishing between the expatriate and the writer who stays at home. Despite a global dispersion of Australian writers, it argues that most scholarship has tended to focus on those in Britain. The chapter discerns that the racialisation underscoring who is generally considered ‘expatriate’ renders the term problematic and that many Australian diasporic poets define themselves through other means. It also finds that many experience feelings of shame, anger, and guilt over the colonial violence shaping Australia. The chapter considers the development of Lola Ridge’s poetics while in Australia before considering Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s poem “Yussef (Hi-Jack),” written during a hijacking of her plane by Palestinian militants, and the poetry Oodgeroo wrote in China. The chapter foregrounds the significance of First Nations mobility, engaging with the London writing of Aboriginal activist A. M. Fernando in the 1920s and writing of recent poets like Ellen Van Neerven.

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expatriate literatureAustralian diasporaIndigenous literaturemobility
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The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry , pp. 252 - 273
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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