Disrupting the colonial narrative

Reading, reckoning and reimagining

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  • Published 20220428
  • ISBN: 978-1-922212-71-9
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

The many Indigenous nations of the globe have always been storytellers, and our stories tell of an animate reality in which everything lives and everything connects. The arrival of colonisers in Indigenous homelands engulfed us in cycles of cataclysmic violence that sought to annihilate our ways of being, knowing and doing. But Indigenous peoples and cultures survived the colonial apocalypse. We are storytellers still.
Ambelin Kwaymullina

 

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Merinda Dutton

Merinda Dutton is a Gumbaynggirr and Barkindi woman, co-founder of the Instagram account @blackfulla_bookclub, an emerging writer and a lawyer by day.

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