Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean

In this groundbreaking and imaginative study, Dashiell Moore explores the inter-colonial other as a mirror image in contemporary Caribbean and Aboriginal Australian literature. Identifying this image in writings across cultural boundaries, Moore offers radically new perspectives on the world generated by literary relation.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• 1: The Commitment to Opacity in the First and Last of the New Worlds


• 2: Inter-Colonial Illusions: Mirroring, Projection, and Reinvention


• 3: Indigenisation and Post-Independence Caribbean Literature


• 4: Inter-Indigenous Encounters in Aboriginal Literature: Lionel Fogarty, Alexis Wright and Ali Cobby Eckermann


• Conclusion: World Literature, the Archipelago, and the Ancient Library


• Works Cited


• Index

About the author

Dashiell Moore is an early career researcher specializing in world literature, postcolonial theory, and indigenous studies, with a particular focus on modern and contemporary Caribbean, Australian, and Pacific writing in English. He has published several scholarly articles in leading journals, such as Textual Practice and The Journal of West Indian Literature. He currently works as a Sessional Lecturer at NYU-Sydney and as an educational designer with the Learning Hub at the University of Sydney.

Summary

In this groundbreaking and imaginative study, Dashiell Moore explores the inter-colonial other as a mirror image in contemporary Caribbean and Aboriginal Australian literature. Identifying this image in writings across cultural boundaries, Moore offers radically new perspectives on the world generated by literary relation.

Product details

• Authors: Dashiell Moore, Dashiell (Sessional Lecturer Moore
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.2023
• EAN: 9780198879800
• ISBN: 978-0-19-887980-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Australia, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian, Caribbean islands, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: postcolonial literature