TY - BOOK ID - 91810588 TI - Writing home : walking, literature and belonging in Australia's Red Centre PY - 2017 SN - 0522871003 0522871011 PB - Carlton, Vic.: MUP Academic Digital, DB - UniCat KW - Literature and society KW - Belonging (Social psychology) KW - Aboriginal Australians KW - Social life and customs. KW - Central Australia KW - Discovery and exploration. KW - Aboriginals, Australian KW - Aborigines, Australian KW - Australian aboriginal people KW - Australian aboriginals KW - Australian aborigines KW - Australians, Aboriginal KW - Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians) KW - Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians) KW - Ethnology KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Belongingness (Social psychology) KW - Connectedness (Social psychology) KW - Social belonging KW - Social connectedness KW - Social psychology KW - Social integration KW - Literature KW - Literature and sociology KW - Society and literature KW - Sociology and literature KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Social aspects KW - Central Australia, Australia KW - Northern Territory UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:91810588 AB - Writing Home explores the literary representation of Australian places by those who have walked them. In particular, it examines how Aboriginal and settler narratives of walking have shaped portrayals of Australia's Red Centre and consequently ideas of nation and belonging. Central Australia has long been characterised as a frontier, the supposed divide between black and white, ancient and modern. But persistently representing it in this way is preventing Australians from re-imagining this internationally significant region as home. Writing Home argues that the frontier no longer adequately describes Central Australia, and that the Aboriginal songlines make a significant but under-acknowledged contribution to Australian discourses of hybridity, belonging and home. Drawing on anthropology, cultural theory, journalism, politics and philosophy, the book traces shifting perceptions of Australian place and space since precolonial times, through six recounted walking journeys of the Red Centre. ER -