A snapshot of my current reading pile. I just finished The Stranger Artist by Quentin Sprague, Australianama by Samia Khatun and Identity by Francis Fukuyama over the last couple of weeks.
Samia Khatun’s Australianama, ‘The South-Asian Odyssey in Australia’, is so absolutely enthralling, I consider it a must-read for anyone interested in Australia and our Asian history. The book challenges western epistemes as the foundation of (Australian) knowledge (which is certainly pertinent to recognition of Australia’s Indigenous deep time history), and starts off with the painfully humourous story of a multitude of historians mislabelling a book found in a Broken Hill mosque, the Kasasol Ambia, a Sufi book of poetry, as a Koran. A must-read.
