Description |
xiii, 244 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Introduction. After Aboriginalism: power, knowledge and indigenous Australian critical writing / Michele Grossman. Part I: Critical Discourses: Identities, Histories, Knowledges. Introduction: the Aboriginal critique of colonial knowing / Ian Anderson -- 1. The end in the beginning: re(de)finding Aboriginality / Michael Dodson -- 2. Black bit, white bit / Ian Anderson -- 3. Aboriginality and corporatism / Philip Morrissey -- 4. Always was and always will be / Jackie Huggins -- 5. Tiddas talkin' up to the white woman: when Huggins et. al. took on Bell / Aileen Moreton-Robinson. Part II: Imaging Indigeneity: Art, Aesthetics, Representations. Introduction: culture wars / Marcia Langton -- 6. Language and lasers / Lin Onus -- 7. Seeing and seaming: contemporary Aboriginal art / Hetti Perkins -- 8. The presentation and interpretation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art: the Yiribana Gallery in focus / Margo Neale -- 9. Aboriginal art and film: the politics of representation / Marcia Langton. Part III: Knowledge in Action: Politics, Policies, Practices. Introduction: resistance, recovery and revitalisation / Aileen Moreton-Robinson -- 10. Better / Martin Nakata -- 11. 'Nothing has changed': the making and unmaking of Koori culture / Tony Birch -- 12. Australia's indigenous languages / Jeanie Bell -- 13. Overturning the doctrine: Indigenous peoples and wilderness: being Aboriginal in the environmental movement / Fabienne Bayet-Charlton -- 14. Wandering girl: who defines 'authenticity' in Aboriginal literature? / Sonja Kurtzer. Afterword. Moving, remembering, singing our place / Philip Morrissey |
Summary |
Written by established and emerging Indigeous intellectuals from a variety of positions, perspectives and places, these essays generate new ways of seeing and understanding Indigenous Australian history, culture, identity and knowledge in both national and global contexts. From museums to Mabo, anthropology to art, feminism to film, land rights to literature, the essays collected here offer provocative insights and compelling arguments around the historical and contemporary issues confronting Indigenous Australian today -- Cover |
Analysis |
Aboriginal identity |
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Aboriginal culture |
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Social conditions |
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Political conditions |
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History |
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Australian literature |
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Literary studies & criticism (Australia,Australian offshore territories) |
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Cultural studies |
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All Australian Indigenous Material |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 214-231 |
Audience |
Tertiary/Undergraduate |
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General |
Notes |
Also published as an electronic book (Etitle) by James Bennett Pty. Ltd. in 2003 with ISBN 0522853021 |
Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Politics and government.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
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Australian literature -- 21st century.
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Art, Australian -- Aboriginal artists
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Australian essays.
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Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity.
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Aboriginal Australians -- History.
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Art, Aboriginal Australian.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
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Aboriginal Australians.
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Australian essays -- Aboriginal authors
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Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- History and criticism.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Intellectual life.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Civilization.
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Aboriginal Australians in literature.
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Criticism -- Australia.
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Australian essays -- Aboriginal Australian authors
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SUBJECT |
Australia -- Civilization http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002863 -- Aboriginal Australian influences
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Genre/Form |
Indigenous Heritage
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Essays.
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Author |
Grossman, Michele, 1957- editor, author of introduction, etc
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Anderson, Ian, 1965- author of introduction, etc
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Langton, Marcia, 1951- author of introduction, etc
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Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, author of introduction, etc
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LC no. |
2004444320 |
ISBN |
9780522850697 (paperback) |
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0522850693 (paperback) |
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