"Ostraka"

2020 Coleman, Claire G. (b. 1974). “Ostraka.” After Australia. Ed. Michael Mohammed Ahmad (South Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Affirm Press/Diversity Arts Australia/Sweatshop Literary Movement, 2020), 127-141. The book includes a “Prologue Black Thoughts: Unreconciliatory Futures” (1-7), Interludes “Black Thoughts: Miscegenation” (77-85) and “Black Thoughts: Horses and Mules” (159-163), and an Epilogue “Black Thoughts: Pemulwuy” (251-257) by Hannah Donnelly, a Wiradjuri writer who is Curator of Aboriginal Programs at Carriageworks, and an Afterword “A Timeline to 2050” (259-265) by Linda Nahlous, Executive Director, Diversity Arts Australia. PSt  

The protagonist is an Aboriginal woman who on returning to Australia is detained at declared stateless under a 2039 law that allows the government to ostracize anyone who it decides is a person of bad character. Aboriginal (Noongar) Australian female author.