Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
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Overview: I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers.
This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury. Dropbear interrogates the complexities of colonial and personal history with an alternately playful, tender and mournful intertextual voice, deftly navigating the responsibilities that gather from sovereign country, the spectres of memory and the debris of settler-coloniality. This innovative mix of poetry and essay offers an eloquent witness to the entangled present, an uncompromising provocation of history, and an embattled but redemptive hope for a decolonial future.
Dropbear was published by the University of Queensland Press in March 2021. It won the 2022 Stella Prize and was highly commended in the 2021 Anne Elder Award. It was also shortlisted for the 2021 Judith Wright Calanthe Award, the 2022 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing and the 2022 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Poetry
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Requirements: .PDF reader, 992 kB
Overview: I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers.
This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury. Dropbear interrogates the complexities of colonial and personal history with an alternately playful, tender and mournful intertextual voice, deftly navigating the responsibilities that gather from sovereign country, the spectres of memory and the debris of settler-coloniality. This innovative mix of poetry and essay offers an eloquent witness to the entangled present, an uncompromising provocation of history, and an embattled but redemptive hope for a decolonial future.
Dropbear was published by the University of Queensland Press in March 2021. It won the 2022 Stella Prize and was highly commended in the 2021 Anne Elder Award. It was also shortlisted for the 2021 Judith Wright Calanthe Award, the 2022 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing and the 2022 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Poetry
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