“No More Boomerang”: Environment and Technology in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Poetry

• Published in: Humanities (Basel) Vol. 4; no. 4; pp. 938 - 957
• Main Author: Ryan, John
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.12.2015
• Subjects: Aboriginal people; Australia; country; Davis; ecocriticism; Environment; Fogarty; Native peoples; Noonuccal; Poetry; Technology; Australia

Based in oral traditions and song cycles, contemporary Aboriginal Australian poetry is full of allusions to the environment. Not merely a physical backdrop for human activities, the ancient Aboriginal landscape is a nexus of ecological, spiritual, material, and more-than-human overlays-and one which...