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(2017) Claiming space for Australian women's writing, Dordrecht, Springer.
Locating indigenous sovereign spaces
race and womanhood in Romaine Moreton's poetry
Sibendu Chakraborty
pp. 261-273
A Goenpul woman from Minjerribah (Stadbroke Island), Romaine Moreton's powerful poetry defines Aboriginality in terms of race, class, gender and sexuality. This chapter focuses on the concept of "indigenous sovereignty" with a collateral drive towards identifying the tropes of "blackness" that Moreton deployed in her poems. The chapter looks at the issue of "racism" in Moreton's poetry by keeping in mind the theoretical engagements of "whiteness studies" that tend to problematise the black/white relation. In other words, the critical reception of Moreton's poetry can be subjected to a relative assessment of the significance of white and indigenous readership negotiated through a complex web of indigenous or quasi-indigenous productions.
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Chakraborty, S. (2017)., Locating indigenous sovereign spaces: race and womanhood in Romaine Moreton's poetry, in D. Das & S. Dasgupta (eds.), Claiming space for Australian women's writing, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 261-273.
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