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'Emily Potter's brilliant readings of a range of Australian literary texts launch the concept of belonging in a quite new way. Belonging is offered here as a strong alternative to simply being Australian... [instead it] is about having valued attributes or attachments, ones that are hard to acquire and to let go. Through storytelling, she argues, white Australia is beginning to recompose its attachments, to understand Indigenous custodianship and to share its political responsibilities.' Stephen Muecke, professor and jury chair of English language and literature, University of Adelaide -- Stephen Muecke 'Writing Belonging at the Millennium continues Emily Potter's passionate quest to understand Australia in all its contentious and contested facets... Against divisive histories and loyalties, and the pressing realities of the Anthropocene that continue to inform what Australia is, Potter argues forcefully that we need stories that admit to a world in which our shadows are with us rather than erased. This is a deeply critical and hopeful book that is essential reading if we are to fully reckon with those shadows.' Elspeth Probyn, professor of gender and cultural studies, University of Sydney. Author of Eating the Ocean (Duke University Press, 2016) -- Elspeth Probyn

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Emily Potter is an associate professor in writing and literature in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University.

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