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After Australia / edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad. - South Melbourne, Victoria : Affirm Press, 2020. - 272 pages ; 21 cm.

Published by Affirm Press in partnership with Diversity Arts Australia and Sweatshop Literacy Movement. "After empire, after colony, after white supremacy...twelve diverse writers imagine an alternative Australia."--Cover.

Black thoughts: unreconcilliatory futures / prologue by Hannah Donnelly -- We live on, in story / Karen Wyld -- Bu liao qing / Michelle Law -- White flu / Omar Sakr -- Black thoughts: miscegenation / Interlude by Hannah Donnelly -- Displaced / Zoya Patel -- Stitches through time / Sarah Ross -- Ostraka /Claire G. Coleman -- Buto (Tagalog, noun: bone, seed) / Kaya Ortiz -- Black thoughts: horses and mules / interlude by Hannah Donnelly -- List of known remedies / Khalid Warsame -- The East Australia Company Mango Bridge / Roanna Gonsalves -- Your skin is the only cloth you cannot wash / Future D. Fidel -- Message from the Ngurra Palya / Ambelin Kwaymullina -- Black thoughts: Pemulwuy / epilogue by Hannah Donnelly -- A timeline to 2050 / afterword by Lena Nahlous.

Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of black history provide the backdrop for stories of love, courage and hope. In this unflinching new anthology, eleven of Australia's most daring Indigenous writers and writers of colour provide a glimpse of Australia as we head toward the year 2050.

ISBN: 9781925972818 (pbk.) 192597281X (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Aboriginal Australians.
Aboriginal Australians--Social conditions.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
Climatic changes.
Cultural awareness.
Police brutality.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
Aboriginal Australians--Literary collections.
Australian poetry.
Anthologies.
Essays.
Australian literature--Aboriginal Australian authors.
Short stories, Australian.
Multiculturalism--Australia--Literary collections.
Multiculturalism--Australia.
Multiculturalism--Australia--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Aboriginal Australians--Fiction.
Police brutality--Australia--Fiction.
Climatic changes--Australia--Fiction.
Aboriginal Australians--Social conditions--Fiction.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of--Fiction.
Cultural awareness--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Australia.
Australia--Literary collections.
Australia--Social conditions--Fiction.
Australia--Race relations--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Australian fiction
Essays
Alternative histories (Fiction).
Short stories
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Alternative histories (Fiction).
Short stories.
Fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction).
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Alternative histories (Fiction).
Australian fiction
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Australian fiction
Short stories
Essays
Alternative histories (Fiction).
Essays.
Short stories.

LC Class. No.: PR9614.5.A94 / A38 2020

Dewey Class. No.: A823.4 A828.4