Noonuccal oodgeroo biography of christopher columbus

  • This article highlights the role of Aboriginal Australian poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker) (1920–93) and African American poet Sonia Sanchez (born.
  • Bio: Oodgeroo Noonuccal was an Australian poet, political activist, artist and educator.
  • The author reminisces about how life was before Columbus came to America and completely changed the world of Native Americans.

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    The Path of Ambivalence: On João by John Mateer

    Robert Wood reviews the "great poetic gift" of "João" by John Mateer.

    Australian poet John Mateer’s recently released book João can be read as a meditation on colonialism, even as it is also about love, travel, language, the body, sex, longing, and art. After all, colonialism is a many-headed hydra and, because it fryst vatten a world historical system, it should come as no surprise that there are other concerns here. One could also use neo-liberalism, globalization, cosmopolitanism, capitalism, or the transnational to frame a reading of this book, but it is colonialism that links João to the rest of Mateer’s work. In this way, we could see one through-line in his oeuvre as “Australia,” including the people classed as Indigenous and settlers in current discourse. But, cut off that head and forget to tar it, and two more appear; this time a question of “the South” and “the world,” including those people tied to diffe

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    'Let no one say the past is dead': History wars and the poetry of Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Sonia Sanchez

    ‘Let no one say the past is dead’: History wars and the poetry of Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Sonia Sanchez Ameer Chasib Furaih ameerchasib.furaih@griffithuni.edu.au Abstract The histories of Australian Aboriginal and African American peoples have been disregarded for more than two centuries. In the 1960s, Aboriginal and African American civil rights activists addressed this neglect. Each endeavoured to write a critical version of history that included their people(s). This article highlights the role of Aboriginal Australian poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker) (1920–93) and African American poet Sonia Sanchez (born 1934) in reviving their peoples’ history. Using Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of ‘minor literature’, the essay shows how these poets deterritorialise the English language and English poetry and exploit their own poetries as counter-histories to record mi

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