Textual Spaces: Aboriginality and Cultural Studies

AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL –

Examines the Aboriginal and European construction of meaning through modes of discourse and their textual forms; discourse analysis – anthropological (Berndt), romantic (Bates) and racist (Durack); physicality of text – bodily inscription, narrative (Paddy Roe), performance and memory; problem of authentic history – the story of Pigeon; structuralist and post-structuralist analysis of narrative – custodianship, history, Dreaming, speaking text; Aboriginal literature as political expression – criticism of repression/liberation dualism (Sally Morgan); legal and Aboriginal English; work of Rover Thomas, Sally Morgan and Jimmy Pike and versions of landscape; concepts of pan-Aboriginality (Yothu Yindi) and marginality in the post-modern.

• viii, 214 p. ; 22 cm.

  • Bibliography (p. 207-211).

  • First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

    • Literature and stories – Fiction
    • Social identity – Aboriginality
    • Race relations – Racism – Stereotyping
    • Language – Aboriginal English
    • Discourse analysis – Narratives
    • Literature and stories – Criticism and analysis
    • Art – Production – Materials / techniques
    • Language – English – Aboriginal English
    • Australia

    Subject:

    • Aboriginal Australians — Cultural assimilation
    • Aboriginal Australians — Social conditions
    • Communication and culture — Australia