Polities and Poetics

Adelle Sefton-Rowston lives on Larrakia country and lectures at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory. She is a Fulbright scholar and an award winning essayist. Adelle is president of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association.

• Contents: Reconciliation has a history – A «place» for reconciliation in Australian writing – It’s not Black and White: Migrant Australians and reconciliation – Reconciliation as embodiment: Knowing the Other through touch and emotion – Reconciliation as a discourse on belief and one of belief itself: Exploring Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria – Not a conclusion: An exploration of what continues to be reconciled.

«What is original about this work is that it offers not just to demonstrate the importance of works that simply mirror or realistically represent Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations, but to reveal the reconciliatory work which this literature is performing. It does so by examining in depth the work of important Aboriginal writers and the ways in which readers are drawn towards the processes, logics and possibilities of reconciliation.»(Professor Lyn McCredden, Chair of Literature, Deakin University)«A compelling and thought-provoking read, this book is a monument to reconciliation. A must for school and university curriculums.»(Marie Munkara, author of Of Ashes and Rivers that Run to the Sea)