Indigenous Hydropoetics: Voicing Rivers through Aboriginal Australian Poetry

John Charles Ryan

Jump to Content

Chapter 5 Indigenous Hydropoetics: Voicing Rivers through Aboriginal Australian Poetry

于Fluid Phenomena

著者：

John Charles Ryan

John Charles Ryan
Search for other papers by John Charles Ryan in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed

类型:: 章节

Page Range:: 100–119

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004758100-007

Purchase instant access (PDF download and unlimited online access):

€42.00€35.00 excl. VAT

Add to Cart

找回访问令牌

Abstract

This chapter presents the idea of Indigenous hydropoetics as an approach to rivers based on traditional Aboriginal views of the fluvial world. Embodiment and relationality are pivotal to conceptualizing Indigenous hydropoetics in response to the ecological precarities of the present era. The concept is developed in relation to contemporary Aboriginal Australian poetry narrating human interdependencies with water systems. The work of Jack Davis, Samuel Wagan Watson, and Jeanine Leane reveals embodied relations to—and relational epistemologies of—rivers and their habitats through attention to Derbal Yerrigan (the Swan River) of Western Australia, the Murrumbidgee River of New South Wales, and Maiwar (the Brisbane River) of Queensland, respectively. Their writing integrates Dreaming narratives and elicits river poiesis while also confronting aquatic conservation urgencies. While Leane’s hydropoetics centres, in particular, on the mediating role of memory—both hers and the river’s—Watson’s poetry calls attention to fractured river ecologies in Brisbane’s urban environment. For Davis, corporeal relationality between humans, rivers, and plants is a potent means of ecopolitical resistance engendering solidarity between life forms. An Indigenous hydropoetics energizes new imaginings of rivers and encourages broad societal awareness of their biocultural complexities.

引用信息

Save
Cite
Email this content

Share Link

Copy this link, or click below to email it to a friend
Email this content
or copy the link directly:

https://brill.edhh.ma/abstract/book/9789004758100/BP000015.xml
The link was not copied. Your current browser may not support copying via this button.

Link copied successfully

折叠
展开
回到页面顶端

Fluid Phenomena

The River and Anthropocene Life-world in the Asia-Pacific

丛编： African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities, 卷： 02

ISBN:: 9789004758100

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 31 Mar 2026

Subjects
- Asian Studies

Front Matter

Back Matter

ProCite

RefWorks

Reference Manager

BibTeX

Zotero

EndNote

统计数据

	全部期间	过去一年	过去30天
摘要浏览次数	163	163	10
全文浏览次数	0	0	0
PDF下载次数	1	1	0

African Studies	Education	Media Studies
American Studies	History	Middle East and Islamic Studies
Ancient Near East and Egypt	Human Rights and Humanitarian Law	Musicology
Art History	International Law	Philosophy
Asian Studies	International Relations	Religious Studies
Biblical Studies	Jewish Studies	Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Biology	Languages and Linguistics	Social Sciences
Book History and Cartography	Life Sciences	Theology and World Christianity
Classical Studies	Literature and Cultural Studies

Subjects

AppBar-Authors 2025

AppBar-Open Access 2025

AppBar-Product Information 2025

AppBar-Company 2025

AppBar-Contact 2025

Chapter 5 Indigenous Hydropoetics: Voicing Rivers through Aboriginal Australian Poetry

Abstract

引用信息

Share Link

Fluid Phenomena

The River and Anthropocene Life-world in the Asia-Pacific

目录

参考资料

统计数据

统计数据