[Commlist] New Title - Writing Belonging at the Millennium by Emily Potter

Intellect is pleased to announce that /Writing Belonging at the 
Millennium/ 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/writing-belonging-at-the-millennium>//by 
Emily Potter is now available to order.

In /Writing Belonging at the Millennium/, Emily Potter critically 
considers the long-standing settler-colonial pursuit of belonging 
manifested through an obsession with firm and stable ground. This 
pursuit continues across the field of the postcolonial nation today; the 
recognition of colonization’s destructive impacts on humans and 
environments troublingly generates a renewed desire to secure 
non-indigenous belonging. Focusing on the crucial role that Australia’s 
contemporary literature plays in shaping ideas of place and its 
inhabitation, Potter tracks non-indigenous belonging claims through a 
range of fiction and non-fiction texts to examine how settler-colonial 
anxieties about belonging intersect with intensifying environmental 
challenges. Significantly, she proposes that new understandings of 
unsettled and uncertain non-indigenous belonging may actually be 
fruitful context for decolonizing relations with place – something that 
is imperative in a time of heightened global environmental crisis.

*_Table of Contents_*
*Acknowledgements*

*Introduction*

*Chapter 1 *Anxious Belonging: Millennial Australia and Andrew McGahan's 
/The White Earth/

*Chapter 2***/Literary Expectations: Grounding Belonging/

*Chapter 3*/Getting Lost with Nikki Gemmell: Reconciliation and Repair/

*Chapter 4 */Redeeming Environments for Belonging: Tim Flannery's 
Australia Day Address/

*Chapter 5*/Desiccated and Infective: Writing in Thea Astley’s /Drylands

*Chapter 6 */The Past is All Around: Chloe Hooper’s /A Child’s Book of 
True Crime

*Chapter 7*/Toxic Imaginaries: Undoing Origins and Endings/

*Afterword: Postcolonial Atmospheres*


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