ISBN:
9781000842982
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (239 pages)
Series Statement:
The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.899/15094
Keywords:
Children, Aboriginal Australian-Social conditions
;
Aboriginal Australians in mass media
;
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
;
Australia-Colonial influence
;
Australia-Ethnic relations-History
;
Australia-Social conditions
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
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