The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty reconciliation the book transforms literary method

the book transforms literary method while respecting and honouring Indigenous histories and peoples of these lands

The uniqueness of Indigenous history

Margaret Kendell

this story had been lost and Polynesians had become an oppressed minority in their own land

"Rich in poems which enhance our awareness of the human complexity of our social and moral dilemmas

The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty reconciliation the book transforms literary methodThe White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and culturally constructed as a white possession. Moreton