[Review] Bonny Cassidy, Monument. Giramondo, 2024. 288pp.

Authors

Jennifer Mae Hamilton University of New England https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6380-9067

book review, family history, settler privilege

This is a review of Bonny Cassidy's book Monument.

Jennifer Mae Hamilton, University of New England

Jennifer Hamilton has scholarly training in literary and gender studies and professional experience in creative and community arts. She's currently writing a book called 'Weathering the City' that draws on her diverse interdisciplinary training. In this book, she reads live art, urban reslience policy, eco-live art, Australian literature and poetry, popular television series and memoir through queer feminist and anti-colonial lenses to produce new ways of understanding climate adaptation.

2025-06-19

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