| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 266 pages) |
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Australian studies : interdisciplinary perspectives, 2297-8194 ; volume 1 |
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Australian studies, interdisciplinary perspectives ; v. 1.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Mabo Decision: Text and Context; Post-Mabo Cultural Practice in Australia; Post-Mabo History, Film and Literature; Historiographic Realignments: Moving on from White; Narrating the Nation Anew; Part I: Writing After Mabo; Chapter 1: Four Core Post-Mabo Novels; David Malouf, Remembering Babylon (1993); Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country (2002); Andrew McGahan, The White Earth (2004); Finest patch of meadow; Kate Grenville, The Secret River (2005); The silences of history; Chapter 2: Re-writing the Past: Mabo and History |
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Frontier Violence in Liam Davison's The White Woman (1994)Admitting to committing murder; Disease in Debra Adelaide's Serpent Dust (1998); Multiple perspectives; Exploration in Peter Mews' Bright Planet (2004); Historiography in Richard Flanagan's Death of a River Guide (1994) and Gould's Book of Fish (2001); Death of a River Guide (1994); Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (2001); Chapter 3: Re-writing the Present: Mabo and Contemporary Australia; Co-existence: Dorothy Hewett's Neap Tide (1999); Aboriginal place; Zac Mumbula; Wik; Zac's speech and Gilbert's legacy; Shared belonging |
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Fitting in, or notRespect and Visitorship: Tim Winton's Dirt Music (2001); Colonial arrival; Postcolonial departure; Indigenous characters: Dirt Music and Cloudstreet; Country Towns and Rural Place: Thea Astley's The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow (1996) and Drylands (1999); Astley's earlier fiction; Multiple effects; Dry land; Weather changes; Negotiated Belonging: Michelle de Kretser's The Lost Dog (2007) and Simone Lazaroo's Lost River: Four Albums (2014); Curthoys' uneasy conversation; The Lost Dog (2007); Lost River: Four Albums (2014); Supplementing bluff binaries |
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Part II: Writing Beyond MaboChapter 4: Sovereignty: Mabo and Aboriginal-Authored Fiction; Introducing Sovereignty Novels; Sovereignty and Mabo; Return of the "Unspeakable"; Sovereign Voice: Orality and Narrative Invention in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria (2006); Carpentaria: "Big in scope, ambition and physical size"; Asserting orality in Carpentaria: Explicit strategies; Asserting orality in Carpentaria: Implicit strategies; Sovereignty and native title; Sovereign Space and Sovereign Mentality: Alexis Wright's The Swan Book (2013); Swan Lake; A sovereign homeland; A sovereign mind |
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Acting sovereign in Swan LakeOnce Were Sovereign and Still Are: Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance (2010); Being of country; A managed estate; Were sovereign and still are; Sovereignty Beyond Legal Title: Melissa Lucashenko's Mullumbimby (2013); Land and belonging; Cash on the stump; Hard yakka, native title; Liarbird place; Internal and external, sovereign being and sovereign place; Conclusion: Dominant, Residual and Emergent Cultures; Framing a Literary Era; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This is the first in-depth, broad-based study of the impact of the Australian High Court's landmark Mabo decision of 1992 on Australian fiction. More than any other event in Australia's legal, political and cultural history, the Mabo judgement - which recognised indigenous Australians' customary "native title" to land - challenged previous ways of thinking about land and space, settlement and belonging, race and relationships, and nation and history, both historically and contemporaneously. While Mabo's impact on history, law, politics and film has been the focus of scholarly attention, the study of its influence on literature has been sporadic and largely limited to examinations of non-Aboriginal novels. Now, a quarter of a century after Mabo, this book takes a closer look at nineteen contemporary novels in order to define and describe Australia's literary imaginary as it reflects and articulates post-Mabo discourse today. -- Source other than Library of Congress |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-261) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Australian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Australian fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Native title (Australia)
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Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights
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Indigenous peoples in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights
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Australian fiction
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Indigenous peoples in literature
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Native title (Australia)
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781787072657 |
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1787072657 |
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