How many Countries?

Stephen Muecke

How many Countries?

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Abstract

It’s really a great honour for us, the authors of Reading the Country, that our book is the pretext for this festival. And I think I can speak for the other two in saying that we applaud your aim to ‘revisit and recapture the intellectual radicalism and political energy of that time’. We certainly need it, and I could go on to talk gloomily of the dark times we live in.But capturing such times is partly what I am getting at with my title, ‘How Many Countries?’ I will go on to talk about multiple ontologies and other arcane matters under that heading, but my first point is that reading the country, reading any part of the nation, including Roebuck Plains, for me means sooner or later confronting the effects of globalising corporate capital.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Reading the Country
Subtitle of host publication	30 Years On
Editors	Philip Morrissey, Chris Healy
Place of Publication	Sydney
Publisher	UTS ePress
Chapter	1
Pages	21-40
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9780648124283
ISBN (Print)	9780648124290
Publication status	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	CSR Books
Number	3

Bibliographical note

This book is copyright. The work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Non Derivatives License CC BY-NC-ND

Keywords

First Nations history
Settlement and resistance
Country and nomadology
Culture and intertextuality
Indigenous Australian studies
Indigenous Australian culture

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