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Book SynopsisThe Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean challenges the structural opposition of indigeneity and creolisation through a historical and literary analysis of the connections between the ''First and Last of the New Worlds'': Australia and the Caribbean. Dashiell Moore explores the continuities between indigenous and creole lifeworlds in the work of renowned Caribbean writers such as Édouard Glissant, Wilson Harris, Sylvia Wynter, and Kamau Brathwaite, and prominent Aboriginal Australian writers including Alexis Wright, Ali Cobby Eckermann, and Lionel Fogarty. Common to these authors is their reimagining of the inter-colonial other as a mirror image. This image, achieved through opacity and projection, visualises in creative ways both the movement to indigenisation in post-independence Caribbean literature and the inter-indigenous encounters of Aboriginal Australian literature. By upending the antipodean relationship of the Caribbean and Australia, this groundbreaki
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1: The Commitment to Opacity in the First and Last of the New Worlds 2: Inter-Colonial Illusions: Mirroring, Projection, and Reinvention 3: Indigenisation and Post-Independence Caribbean Literature 4: Inter-Indigenous Encounters in Aboriginal Literature: Lionel Fogarty, Alexis Wright and Ali Cobby Eckermann Conclusion: World Literature, the Archipelago, and the Ancient Library Works Cited Index
