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A Stirring Of Cultures: The Contest For Place, Belonging And Identity In Australia, Garry Stewart Henderson
A Stirring Of Cultures: The Contest For Place, Belonging And Identity In Australia, Garry Stewart Henderson
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The creative work, The Wounded Sinner, and the accompanying exegesis, form a volume of writing that considers aspects of place and belonging in a contemporary Australian context through the agencies of Aboriginality, migration and homelessness. While these issues are present and, at times, contentious in the structure of modern Australian society they have roots in past eras of empire building, racism and the movement from agrarianism to industrialisation. The characters are drawn from my own experiences and, as such, validate both the creative work and give the exegesis substance.
Jeanie Bayona is an Aboriginal woman who was raised, from …