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Amnesia Road
Landscape, Violence and Memory
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'At both ends of the world, I have found confusion and profound disagreement about how to read the story of the past, about who should write or speak it, and what parts of it should be written or spoken about at all.'
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Amnesia Road is a compelling literary examination of historic violence in rural areas of Australia and Spain. It is also an unashamed celebration of the beautiful landscapes where this violence has been carried out. Travelling and writing across two locations—the seldom-visited mulga plains of south-west Queensland and the backroads of rural Andalusia—award-winning Australian Hispanist Luke Stegemann uncovers neglected history and its many neglected victims, and asks what place such forgotten people have in contemporary debates around history, nationality, guilt, and identity.
Winner of the 2021 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award
Winner of the 2021 Queensland Literary Award for Non-Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2021 NSW Premier's History Awards, Australian History Prize
"At both ends of the world, I have found confusion and profound disagreement about how to read the story of the past, about who should write or speak it, and what parts of it should be written or spoken about at all."
"This book will come to be regarded as a classic of Australian literature." - Nicolas Rothwell
"Daring and original: an eloquent and moving meditation on place, memory and history." - Mark McKenna
Amnesia Road swept me away in lyrical storytelling, though veiled inside is a brutally complex shared history exposing the deliberate annihilation of the relationship between landscapes and their kin. Stegemann has lifted the dark shadowy veil of this denial, invisibility and silence to shift the direction of historical redemptive memory so the action of healing can begin." - Brook Andrew
"Luke Stegemann explores with extraordinary tenderness and understanding the aftermath of the frontier massacres in Australia and the atrocities of civil war Spain. He offers new insights about amnesia and the forgetting of the violent past and sets a roadmap to acknowledge and come to terms with the past. A brilliant achievement." - Lyndall Ryan
"In this absorbing meditation on spectacular beauty and unfathomable cruelty, Luke Stegemann seamlessly joins his passionate love of two soils, Queensland in Australia and Andalusia in Spain. Amnesia Road displays that combination of warm empathy and cool appraisal essential in the best kind of history." - Frank Bongiorno
"By turns beautiful and shocking, Stegemann's book reflects with a coolly objective, emotionally spare voice on the murderous pasts of Andalusia and south-west Queensland. Amnesia Road probes, with sharp intelligence, what history looks like when it can't be remembered and what it means to remember the otherwise forgotten dead." - Francis O'Gorman, Saintsbury Professor of English Literature, University of Edinburgh
"...a stimulating take on Australian history, one with which anyone interested in reconciliation should engage." - Jeff Sparrow, Saturday Paper
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Amnesia Road by Luke Stegemann blends travel narrative with historical exploration and has been highly praised. Nicolas Rothwell suggests it will be considered a classic of Australian literature, indicating its profound impact and cultural significance.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781742236728
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 March 2021
Country: Australia
Imprint: NewSouth Publishing
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 155.0mm
Height: 233.0mm
Weight: 333g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Luke Stegemann is a writer, Hispanist and cultural historian based in rural south-east Queensland. He has held senior positions in media, publishing and higher education in Australia, Europe and Asia. Luke has written on art, politics and history for a wide range of Australian and Spanish publications, and is the author of The Beautiful Obscure (2017). In 2018 he received the Malaspina Award in recognition of his ‘outstanding contribution to the development of cultural relations between Australia and Spain’. On weekends, he travels extensively around Queensland in his role as a referee on the state amateur boxing circuit.
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