African literature & writers

In the conclusion to her germinal study of sex, race and nation in Australian women's writing, Along the Faultlines (1995), Susan Sheridan questions the prevalent orientations of Australian and literary cultural studies. In particular she draws attention to its 'fixed…

Jackie Kay's country is Scotland but she can be demonised within it because she is black. The poem's narrator has to assert her right to the land which does not itself erect barriers (the river shakes hands with the sea)…