ISBN:
9789042037946
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (304 p)
Series Statement:
Cross/Cultures Ser. v.173
Parallel Title:
Print version Decolonizing the Landscape : Indigenous Cultures in Australia
DDC:
820.9899
Keywords:
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
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Aboriginal Australians -- Civilization
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Arts, Aboriginal Australian
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Aboriginal Australians ; Civilization
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Aboriginal Australians ; Social life and customs
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Arts, Aboriginal Australian
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
How does one read across cultural boundaries? The multitude of creative texts, performance practices, and artworks produced by Indigenous writers and artists in contemporary Australia calls upon Anglo-European academic readers, viewers, and critics to respond to this critical question.Contributors address a plethora of creative works by Indigenous writers, poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and painters, including Richard Frankland, Lionel Fogarty, Lin Onus, Kim Scott, Sam Watson, and Alexis Wright, as well as Durrudiya song cycles and works by Western Desert artists. The complexity of these crea
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Sharing Across Boundaries; From Drill to Dance; The Great Tradition: Translating Durrudiya's Songs; Aboriginal Families, Knowledge, and the Archives: A Case Study; Decolonizing Methodology in an Arnhem Land Garden; The 'Cultural Design' of Western Desert Art; Ethical and Other Encounters; Modernism, Antipòdernism, and Australian Aboriginality; Material Resonance: Knowing Before Meaning; Waiting at the Border: White Filmmakingon the Ground of Aboriginal Sovereignty
Description / Table of Contents:
Wounded Spaces/Geographies of Connectivity: Stephen Muecke's No Road (bitumen all the way), Margaret Somerville's Body/Landscape Journals, and Katrina Schlunke's Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a MassacreRecovering the Past: Entangled Histories in Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance; Reading Transformations; The Geopolitical Underground: AlexisWright's Carpentaria, Mining, and the Sacred; Identity and the Re-Assertion of Aboriginal Knowledgein Sam Watson's The Kadaitcha Sung; Gallows Humour and Stereotyping in the Nyungar WriterAlf Taylor's Short Fiction: A White Cross-Racial Reading
Description / Table of Contents:
""And in my dreaming I can let go of the spiritsof the past"": Gothicizing the Common Lawin Richard Frankland's No Way to ForgetPerformative Lives - Transformative Practices: Wesley Enochand Deborah Mailman, The 7 Stages of Grieving, and RichardFrankland, Conversations with the Dead; Notes on Contributors
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