Decolonizing the Landscape

Indigenous Cultures in Australia

AvBeate Neumeier

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

Del 173 i serien Cross/Cultures

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Beskrivning

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 creative works transcends categorical boundaries of Western art, aesthetics, and literature, demanding new processes of reading and response. Other contributors address works by non-Indigenous writers and filmmakers such as Stephen Muecke, Katrina Schlunke, Margaret Somerville, and Jeni Thornley, all of whom actively engage in questioning their complicity with the past in order to challenge Western modes of knowledge and understanding and to enter into a more self-critical and authentically ethical dialogue with the Other.In probing the limitations of Anglo-European knowledge-systems, essays in this volume lay the groundwork for entering into a more authentic dialogue with Indigenous writers and critics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-01-01
Mått:155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt:616 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cross/Cultures
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789042037946

Utforska kategorier

Film inom Kultur
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Beate Neumeier is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Cologne. Her research is in gender, performance, and postcolonial studies. Editor of the e-journal Gender Forum and the database GenderInn, she has published books on English Renaissance and contemporary anglophone drama, contemporary American and British-Jewish literature, and women’s writing. Kay Schaffer, an Adjunct Professor in Gender Studies and Social Analysis at the University of Adelaide, is the author of ten books and numerous articles at the intersections of gender, culture, and literary studies. Her recent publications address the Stolen Generations in Australia, life narratives in human rights campaigns, and readings of contemporary Chinese women writers.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations Beate Neumeier and Kay Schaffer: Introduction Sharing Across Boundaries Kim Scott: From Drill to DanceStephen Muecke: The Great Tradition: Translating Durrudiya’s SongsAnna Haebich: Aboriginal Families, Knowledge, and the Archives: A Case StudyMichael Christie: Decolonizing Methodology in an Arnhem Land GardenEleonore Wildburger: The ‘Cultural Design’ of Western Desert ArtEthical and Other Encounters Ian Henderson: Modernism, Antipòdernism, and Australian AboriginalityBill Ashcroft: Material Resonance: Knowing Before MeaningLisa Slater: Waiting at the Border: White Filmmaking on the Ground of Aboriginal SovereigntyKay Schaffer: 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 MassacreSue Kossew: Recovering the Past: Entangled Histories in Kim Scott’s That Deadman DanceReading Transformations Philip Mead: The Geopolitical Underground: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria, Mining, and the Sacred Heinz Antor: Identity and the Re-Assertion of Aboriginal Knowledge in Sam Watson’s The Kadaitcha SungAnne Brewster: Gallows Humour and Stereotyping in the Nyungar Writer. Alf Taylor’s Short Fiction: A White Cross-Racial ReadingKatrin Althans: “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 ForgetBeate Neumeier: Performative Lives – Transformative Practices: Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman, The 7 Stages of Grieving, and Richard Frankland, Conversations with the DeadNotes on Contributors