Writing Country: Aboriginality Through Poetry in the Works of Australian Aboriginal Authors Paul Collis and Jeanine Leane
Writing Country: Aboriginality Through Poetry in the Works of Australian Aboriginal Authors Paul Collis and Jeanine Leane

Summary/Abstract: Through a study of poetry by Indigenous Australian poets Paul Collis and Jeanine Leane, this essay focuses on the poetic form as a means of expressing aboriginality. This essay examines the grammatical shift from language and country to language is country. The aim of this essay is to highlight the role of the relation between language and country in the construction of Indigenous identity. As such, poetry in First Nations’ languages gives form to Indigenous identity and allows for a reflection on the place of the English language in colonization, both historically and in contemporary contexts. Finally, Indigeneity emerges in this essay through the prism of language revitalization and autonomy,understood as a fundamental step in the reaffirmation of Indigenous identity.

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