Indigenous Literatures of Australia and India: A Trans-Indigenous Perspective (Routledge Research in Transnational Indigenous Perspectives)

Indigenous Literatures of Australia and India: A Trans-Indigenous Perspective follows the “trans-Indigenous” turn in Indigenous literary studies, which encourages connections between texts from diverse Indigenous contexts.It juxtaposes Indigenous Australian literature situated in an Anglophone, white settler-nation in the hemispheric south and Adivasi/tribal literature from India, a non-Anglophone, postcolonial nation-state in the Global South. Both represent literary traditions animated by a vision of self-governance, even as they emerge from markedly different contexts and continue to negotiate varying degrees of external influences on their publication and reception.Beginning from a place of accepted difference and distance, this book explores commonalities across these traditions by identifying parallel literary strategies of resistance.These shared strategies also structure and organize this book.The overarching aim is to step outside established formulas and boundaries in both co