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Shows how poets like Noonuccal, Fogarty, Baraka and Sanchez collaborated with other civil rights activists in voicing the demands of their people, and how they used their poetry to reflect the realities they experienced and to imagine new possibilities. Aboriginal poets Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker; 19201993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958), and African American poets Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones; 19342014) and Sonia Sanchez (1934) were prominent in the struggles of their peoples during the civil rights movements of the 1960s and beyond. I have treated the poetries of these poets as an example of distinct poetics, which is not bounded by the borders of a territory or by geography as abstracted on a map, situating them along the lines of what Chadwick Allen (2012) calls 'together (yet) distinct'. This literary-political relation enables the poetries of these geo-ethnically distinct poets to be read within a single critical frame, without confluencing their literary distinctiveness. The book places the poetries of these four selected poets in broader, international contexts by drawing trans-Pacific connections among them. The contribution of this book lies in its study of poetic intertextuality and common themes, and in the evaluation of the impact (direct or indirect) of African American poets, particularly those of the Black Arts movement, upon Aboriginal poets. Thus, the book should be seen as a starting point, rather than the final word on transnational exchanges between these movements.

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“Ameer Chasib Furaih is to be congratulated for his masterful contribution to forging transcontinental cultural links between Aboriginal Australian and African American literatures. This is the kind of global network that matters among peoples fighting for cultural and political autonomy, and he makes a compelling case for how this network is strengthened through literary activism.” — Stephen Muecke, Nulungu Research Institute, Broome, Western Australia “Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States engages an important era of grassroots activism and poetic experimentation from which we still have much to learn. The book’s purposeful juxtapositions productively situate Indigenous Australian responses to settler colonialism within transnational and global contexts.” — Chadwick Allen, author of TransIndigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies

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Ameer Chasib Furaih is an instructor at University of Baghdad / College of Education (Ibn Rushd) for Human Sciences.

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