Decolonizing the landscape : : Indigenous cultures in Australia / / edited by Beate Neumaier and Kay Schaffer ; contributors Katrin Althans [and fifteen others].

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Cross/cultures ; 173
Cross/Cultures 173.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • From Drill to Dance / Kim Scott
  • The Great Tradition: Translating Durrudiya’s Songs / Stephen Muecke
  • Aboriginal Families, Knowledge, and the Archives: A Case Study / Anna Haebich
  • Decolonizing Methodology in an Arnhem Land Garden / Michael Christie
  • The ‘Cultural Design’ of Western Desert Art / Eleonore Wildburger
  • Modernism, Antipòdernism, and Australian Aboriginality / Ian Henderson
  • Material Resonance: Knowing Before Meaning / Bill Ashcroft
  • Waiting at the Border: White Filmmaking on the Ground of Aboriginal Sovereignty / Lisa Slater
  • 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 Massacre / Kay Schaffer
  • Recovering the Past: Entangled Histories in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance / Sue Kossew
  • The Geopolitical Underground: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria, Mining, and the Sacred / Philip Mead
  • Identity and the Re-Assertion of Aboriginal Knowledge in Sam Watson’s The Kadaitcha Sung / Heinz Antor
  • Gallows Humour and Stereotyping in the Nyungar Writer Alf Taylor’s Short Fiction: A White Cross-Racial Reading / Anne Brewster
  • “And in my dreaming I can let go of the spirits of the past”: Gothicizing the Common Law in Richard Frankland’s No Way to Forget / Katrin Althans
  • Performative Lives – Transformative Practices: Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman, The 7 Stages of Grieving, and Richard Frankland, Conversations with the Dead / Beate Neumeier
  • Notes on Contributors.