{"product_id":"9781839990571","title":"Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian Memoirs","description":"Author: Martina Horkov\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781839990571\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Anthem Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 05 May 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 250 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe book focuses on various ways of articulating settler belonging in Australian memoir since the turn of the 21st century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter Australia witnessed a reinvigorated public interest in the revisionist history of European settlement and colonial violence, resulting in the dispossession of Indigenous people and damaged settlerIndigenous relations, Australian settler majority has experienced an unsettlement of their sense of belonging, or the so-called 'settler anxiety'. The book analyses how settler (un)belonging is narrativised in popular memoirs written by Australian public intellectuals, such as historians, artists, writers, and commentators, in the period after 2000.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese memoirs of settler belonging share one aspect: they all ask and seek answers to the implicit question, how to belong as a White settler who bears witness to the legacy of violent colonization vis--vis continuing Indigenous dispossession? How to justify the settler presence in and love of the land that was stolen from First Australians? The individual chapters examine historians' memoirs, White women's travel narratives, experimental place-writing, and eco- and landscape memoirs, tracing a gradual shift in literary representations of settler anxiety and detecting new perspectives on what can be called ethical settler belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47924917174430,"sku":"ING-9781839990571","price":159.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781839990571.jpg?v=1782955836","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781839990571","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}