Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 252
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9
978-1-78661-548-0 • Hardback • November 2020 • $158.00 • (£123.00)
978-1-78661-648-7 • Paperback • November 2020 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
978-1-78661-549-7 • eBook • November 2020 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Stephen Muecke is professor of creative writing at Flinders University, and is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Recent books are Bruno Latour and the Humanities, edited with Rita Felski, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020 and The Mother’s Day Protest and other Fictocritical Essays, Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016.
Paddy Roe, OAM (c1912-2001) was a Goolarabooloo Elder and Law man from Broome. He published, with Stephen Muecke, Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley (1983) and with Krim Benterrak and Stephen Muecke, Reading the Country (1984). He started the famous Lurujarri Heritage Trail in 1987 as a way of protecting Country by teaching people how to understand it.
INTRODUCTION
DAY 1—WALKING
DAY 2—HISTORY
DAYS 3 & 4—LAW
DAY 5—SCIENCE
DAY 6—POLITICS
DAY 7—ECONOMICS
DAY 8—ART
DAY 9—BACK TO CIVILISATION
APPENDIX 1
BIBLIOGRAPHY
In thisremarkable book, Stephen Muecke continues his conversation with his mentor, Paddy Roe. Their new story is a guide to a possible future, based on a past that is never simply past. Paddy Roe is always, and always will be, present, while Muecke remains his enquiring listener and dutiful scribe.
This is our children’s country. To disrespect country, to harm it, is to harm them.
— Tony Birch, author and essayist
This is how you walk country, in it, with it, talking to us dreamy day by day walking the sea and the red soil, theory and story walking by our side, too, never short of hard facticity as the spirit children play.
— Mick Taussig, professor emeritus of anthropology, Columbia University