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After Australia / edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad.

Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of black history provide the backdrop for stories of love, courage and hope. In this unflinching new anthology, eleven of Australia's most daring Indigenous writers and writers of colour provide a glimpse of Australia as we head toward the year 2050.

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ISBN 9781925972818 (pbk.)
192597281X (pbk.)
Dewey 828.4
Title After Australia / edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad.
Published South Melbourne, Victoria : Affirm Press, 2020.
Physical description 272 pages ; 21 cm.
General note Published by Affirm Press in partnership with Diversity Arts Australia and Sweatshop Literacy Movement.
"After empire, after colony, after white supremacy...twelve diverse writers imagine an alternative Australia."--Cover.
Contents note Black thoughts: unreconcilliatory futures / prologue by Hannah Donnelly -- We live on, in story / Karen Wyld -- Bu liao qing / Michelle Law -- White flu / Omar Sakr -- Black thoughts: miscegenation / Interlude by Hannah Donnelly -- Displaced / Zoya Patel -- Stitches through time / Sarah Ross -- Ostraka /Claire G. Coleman -- Buto (Tagalog, noun: bone, seed) / Kaya Ortiz -- Black thoughts: horses and mules / interlude by Hannah Donnelly -- List of known remedies / Khalid Warsame -- The East Australia Company Mango Bridge / Roanna Gonsalves -- Your skin is the only cloth you cannot wash / Future D. Fidel -- Message from the Ngurra Palya / Ambelin Kwaymullina -- Black thoughts: Pemulwuy / epilogue by Hannah Donnelly -- A timeline to 2050 / afterword by Lena Nahlous.
Summary Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of black history provide the backdrop for stories of love, courage and hope. In this unflinching new anthology, eleven of Australia's most daring Indigenous writers and writers of colour provide a glimpse of Australia as we head toward the year 2050.
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Literary collections
Australian poetry
Anthologies
Essays
Aboriginal Australians
Fiction
Police brutality -- Australia -- Fiction
Short stories
Fiction
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Essays
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