Activists
Articles
- Poetry, Activism and Cultural Capital
Drawing upon the examples of the Mexican poet Javier Sicilia and South African poet Dennis Brutus, this essay investigates the relationship between poetry and activism…
1 November 2013 - Singing up Country in the Poetry of Judith Wright and Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda (born 1904) and Judith Wright (born 1915) are world poets. Not only has their work been widely read within the worlds of Spanish…
1 November 2008 - Indigenous Literature and the Extractive Industries
Phillip Mead discusses ‘two contemporary extensions of the discourse about the social and economic reality of extractive industries on the Indigenous plane of the literary…
1 November 2013 - ‘Listen to the People Who Know’: Nuclear Colonial Memory in the Work of Natalie Harkin and Yhonnie Scarce
In this article, I ask how the British nuclear humanities, and in particular literary studies, might turn towards Indigenous Australian artistic, literary and critical work…
2 May 2023