Title Representing Aboriginal Childhood The Politics of Memory and Forgetting in Australia

Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (239 p.) Series The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture Ser The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture Ser Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- The Native-Child Nexus in Settler-Colonial Imagination -- Political Imaginaries and Image Politics -- Political Imaginaries -- The Visible and the Invisible -- Image/Politics -- Good Coloniser/Bad Coloniser -- Chapter Summary -- Notes -- 2 Gumnut Babies and 'Babes in the Wood': The Nativised White Child -- A Country of Naughty Children -- The Origins of Australian Childhood -- Little Robinson Crusoes: Eco-Nationalism and the Australian Children's Story The Lost Child Narrative: From 'Castaway' to 'Terraformer' -- Seven Little Australians (1894) -- Dot and the Kangaroo (1899) -- The Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (From 1918) -- Where the Child Was, the Adult Shall Be -- Storm Boy (1966) -- Nest (2014) and Where the Trees Were (2016) -- Notes -- 3 Amnesiac Recollections: The Found White Child -- Shipwrecked: The Historical Found Child -- The Literary Found Child -- Remembering Babylon (1993) -- Manganinnie -- The Novel (1979) -- The Film (1980) -- Notes -- 4 The Romance of Reconciliation: The Mixed-Race Aboriginal Child -- Nullah "Two Forbidden Love Stories" -- Getting Lost to Find Oneself -- Piccaninny Kitsch and the Objectification of the Aboriginal Child -- 'Piccaninny' as Fetish -- Fetish, Attraction, and Imperialism -- Fetish and Disavowal -- Conclusion: Fetish and Reconciliation? -- Notes -- 5 'Breeding Out the Colour' in GevaColor: Jedda -- Staging Jedda, 'Eve' in Ebony -- Jedda's Reception -- From Biological Absorption to Social Cohesion -- The 'Half-Caste' and the Moron -- The 'Half-Caste' as Problem -- The Caucasian Hypothesis and the Spectre of Atavism -- The 'Half-Caste' as Solution Jedda and the Vicissitudes of Colour -- Conclusion: The Taming of the Wild Goose -- Notes -- 6 Finding 'Home' Through the Child: Bringing Them Home and Assimilationism's Present -- 26 May 1997: A Day in the Life of Parliamentary Democracy -- Bringing Them Home? The Constitutive Homelessness of Aboriginal Childhood in Settler-Colonial Imagination -- Rabbit-Proof Fence -- Jasper Jones -- Family Is Culture -- After the Apology -- Saving Children and Infantilising Adults -- Notes -- 7 En-Gendering Failure: Sexualised Girls, Criminalised Boys, Through the Colonial Apparatus What 'We' Speak About When 'We' Speak About Rape -- Tiddas Speak Up: Moreton-Robinson's Intervention -- 'To Stabilise and Protect' -- The Intervention as Anthropological/Gynaecological Machine -- Apparatus -- The Anthropological Machine -- Storm in a Hermetically Sealed Teacup -- Sacrificial Bodies -- Andro/Gyno-Machines -- The Sexualised Girl -- The Criminalised Boy -- Coda -- Notes -- 8 Representing Invisibility: The Indigenous Child as Subaltern -- Speaking Of/Through the Subaltern -- A Tale of Two Sovereignties -- Living With the Virus -- 'Tiddalik' Sovereignty -- Swan Girl Summary Engaging with representations in literature, film, governmental discourse, and news and infotainment media, this book investigates the ways in which Aboriginal children figure in Australia's cultural life, to mediate Australians' ambivalence about the colonial origins of the nation, as well as its possible post-colonial future Notes Description based upon print version of record The Limbo of Childhood: Subaltern Sovereignty Subject Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Social conditions Aboriginal Australians in mass media. Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of. Aboriginal Australians in mass media Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Social conditions Colonial influence Ethnic relations Social conditions SUBJECT Australia -- Colonial influence Australia -- Ethnic relations -- History Australia -- Social conditions Subject Australia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781000842982 1000842983

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