Southerly, March 22nd, 2002
Whilst attempting to write a paper about relationships to place, Margaret Somerville suffered from what she calls `a crisis of the body.' (1) She was in the early stages of a collaborative writing project with four Aboriginal women in which she was recording their oral histories of their connection to place. She says of the project: The women gave me multiple selves, the different I's I want in the text: the pencil as opposed to the mouth, archaeologist, historian, oral historian, and so on, but the new question was how to write a bodily presence? (p.11, italics added) She goes on to say t...
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