AustLit

'Several major Australian novels about climate change imagine a warmed planet. This is a timely survey of these cautionary tales. There is also a long tradition of Australians, settlers and Indigenous people, writing about the land and the sea, and about how our climate shapes our communities and our future, and about how colonisation and industrialisation too often destroys our environment. This outline begins to locate, question and frame the insights of many past and present Australian authors about changing climatic conditions.' (Publication summary)

'Independence movement in Africa was followed by the collapse of the colonizer's political power that controlled all the resources, the economy and politics in Africa, a situation which forced a new African elite to seize back the control of their countries by chasing white folks from power. But, this change of regime provoked many tensions between the departing white leaders who attempted to remain in power while they faced new African leaders determined to bring change in their countries dominated long ago by white supremacy. Thus, this clash brought about many situations of dilemma among white men living within African communities as well as the Africans themselves. However, the main focus in this work is just an attempt to scrutinize some of these situations of dilemma white men have been facing in South Africa, as Coetzee would depict them in his novels Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace.' (Publisher's summary)

'This study offers an exploration of the drama informing the Indigenous experiences, which contains Aboriginal people's effort to attain a visible reality based on cultural and political rights. It is also a deeper understanding of the empowering and disempowering Indigenes in the discursive domain as well as in the existential reality.

'Though the study considers a large number of playtexts written by the Indigenous playwrights from 1970s to the present, it explores playtexts written by non- Indigenous playwrights as well. Here, the chief concern is to explore the discursive features of the texts, the items both linguistic and dramatic that tend to place or exclude Aboriginal people from discourses.

'The Aboriginal theatre movement started in the 1970s serves as the complete reconceptualisation of Aboriginality in terms of centering Aboriginal Identity and culture in the dominant discursive domain. Such an intervention may involve the recovery of Aboriginal history from the dominant history of Australia and infusing positive attributes to Indigenes' identity.' (Back cover.)