Timothy Neale Timothy Neale is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney. All essays by Timothy Neale Review: Timothy Nealeon Noel Pearson Quarterly Essay 55: A Rightful Place: Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth by Noel Pearson Black Inc 72pp $19.95 AU Published September, 2014 ISBN 9781863956819 A stake in the game: A Rightful Place by Noel Pearson Reading across Noel Pearson’s work, from his 1986 honours thesis on the ‘mission culture’ of his hometown of Hope Vale to this newest essay, A Rightful Place, there are notable consistencies. He is ultimately a romantic thinker, in the sense that he always aims to trace a course from disaster towards redemption, rather than mere remediation. Nov. 2014 • Australian literature • First Nations literatures • Non-fiction
