The 'Settler Problem': Country and the (Im)Possibilities of a Settler Ecopoetics.
The article focuses on the "settler problem" in Australian ecopoetics, examining how settler poets have historically misrepresented First Nations lands and cultures while engaging with the non-human environment. It analyses how poets such as Judith Wright, Jennifer Rankin, and John Kinsella adopt pr...
| Published in: | Australian Literary Studies Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 1 - 22 |
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Australian Literary Studies
2025
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| Summary: | The article focuses on the "settler problem" in Australian ecopoetics, examining how settler poets have historically misrepresented First Nations lands and cultures while engaging with the non-human environment. It analyses how poets such as Judith Wright, Jennifer Rankin, and John Kinsella adopt procedural and self-reflexive approaches to negotiate settler agency, foreground non-human relations, and develop a less mythological, decolonial framework for ecopoetry in colonial contexts. |
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