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Title: | "No More Boomerang": Environment and Technology in Contemporary Aboriginal Poetry | Contributor(s): | Ryan, John C (author) | Publication Date: | 2016 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20567 | Open Access Link: | http://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/223 | Abstract: | Based in oral traditions and song cycles, contemporary Aboriginal Australian poetry is full of allusions to the environment. Not merely a physical backdrop for human activities, the ancient Aboriginal landscape is a nexus of ecological, spiritual, material, and more-than-human overlays-and one which is increasingly compromised by modern technological impositions. In literary studies, while Aboriginal poetry has become the subject of critical interest, few studies have foregrounded the interconnections between environment and technology. Instead, scholarship tends to focus on the socio-political and cultural dimensions of the writing. How have contemporary Australian Aboriginal poets responded to the impacts of environmental change and degradation? How have poets addressed the effects of modern technology in ancestral environments, or country? This article will develop an ecocritical and technology-focused perspective on contemporary Aboriginal poetry through an analysis of the writings of three significant literary-activists: Jack Davis (1917-2000), Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920-1993), and Lionel Fogarty (born 1958). Davis, Noonuccal, and Fogarty strive poetically to draw critical attention to the particular impacts of late modernist technologies on Aboriginal people and country. In developing a critique of invasive technologies that adversely affect the environment and culture, their poetry also invokes the Aboriginal technologies that sustained (and, in places, still sustain) people in reciprocal relation to country. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Global Indigeneities and the Environment, p. 222-244 | Publisher: | MDPI AG | Place of Publication: | Basel, Switzerland | ISBN: | 9783038422402 9783038422419 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200501 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 450109 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature, journalism and professional writing | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified 969999 Environment not elsewhere classified 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280116 Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies |
HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/223 | Series Name: | Humanities | Editor: | Editor(s): Karen L Thornber & Tom Havens |
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Appears in Collections: | Book Chapter School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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