The Distribution of Settlement: Appropriation and Refusal in Australian Literature and Culture

By Michael Griffiths and Michael R. Griffiths

Settler representations of Indigenous identity affect the way Indigenous writers themselves operate to represent themselves and their people. The rendering visible of Indigenous culture involves a history riven with appropriation, misrepresentation, and material and discursive forms of violence. Tracking such cases of appropriation and misrepresentation in white Australian writing from the middle of the twentieth century, this book also turns to the legacy of these acts on and in contemporary Aboriginal writers as diverse as Kim Scott, Alexis Wright, Tony Birch, and Tara June Winch.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1760800015
• ISBN13: 9781760800017
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.