Reading 'Body/Landscape Journals' is like falling through a fault-line, as we respond to poesis, both as poetry and as thought creation. From Pine Gap Women's Peace Camp and interactions with women across Australia, Margaret Somerville conjures up the landscape inhabited by both Indigenous and white women in the places they call home: the mountains, the desert, the tropics. A thoughtful challenge of all that we think, concluding with reflections on the architecture of love.
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Somerville calls into question the premises of anthropology, cartography, history, autobiography and biography in this record of her interactions with Aboriginal women in the desert, in the mountains and at home, and with white women in the tropics and at home.
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"Addressing gender and race, national and personal histories, in culturally specific times and places, is a project of immense importance, and creatively reflecting on the ways in which these can be written is an integral part of that project. Somerville
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781875559879
Publisert
1999
Utgiver
Vendor
Spinifex Press
Vekt
310 gr
Høyde
218 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Biographical note

Margaret Somerville