Frontier skirmishes
Subtitle: literary and cultural debates in Australia after 1992
By: edited by Russell West-Pavlov, Jennifer Wawrzinek
Series: Anglistische Forschungen -- Bd. 409
Publisher: Winter
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9783825357610
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life in literature; History and criticism; Australian literature; Aboriginal Australians in literature; Frontier and pioneer life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Frontier wars, history wars, word wars / Russell West-Pavlov; title: pt. 1. Preliminaries. Historical controversies and the history wars in Australia / Bain Attwood; title: National narratives and local impacts: the legacy of the Australian history wars in Tasmania / James Boyce; title: Apologies, agency and resilience / Kim Scott; title: pt. 2. Concepts. Don McLeod's law: the genesis of the aboriginal concept of the strike / Stephen Muecke; title: Fencing in the frontier / Russell West-Pavlov; title: The scene of the crime / Christopher Kelen; title: pt. 3. Representing the frontier. 'How do you plead?': guilt, responsibility and reconciliation on the frontier in Rolf de Heer's The tracker (2002) / Sarah Pinto; title: Frontier violence and the power of the 'sacred': Alex Miller's Journey to the stone country and Landscape of farewell / Rebecca Dorgelo; title: 'The myth of settlement': grey nomads, Papunya Tula and frontier violence in Pat Jacobs' Going inland / Frances Devlin-Glass; title: History: the much less than final frontier, and the story of Thea Astley's short stories in It's raining in Mango / Victoria Kuttainen; title: 'This is how I'm sorry': witnessing the frontier in contemporary Australian historical writing / Kelly Jean Butler; title: Bearing witness: memory and decreation in Kim Mahood's Craft for a dry lake / Jennifer Wawrzinek; title: 'All are implicated': violence and accountability in Sam Watson's The Kadaitcha Sung and Alexis Wright's Plains of promise / Kate Hall; title: pt. 4. White aborigines. Re-imagining Australian modernity: performative and non-performative indigenisation in three white Australian cultural texts / Adam Gall; title: Telling tales about crossing borders: David Malouf, Germaine Greer, and the reception of Remembering Babylon / Peter Otto; title: The black-white man in Mudrooroo's The Kwinkan / Maureen Clark; title: pt. 5. Pedagogy, medicine and the law. Rediscovering Carrolup / Tony Hughes-d'Aeth; title: Teaching the frontier: shifting narratives and cultural boundaries in 1990s school textbooks / Alexandra Sauvage; title: The albino and the storyteller: eugenics and the best of intentions in 1930s Darwin / Stephen Gray; title: Epilogue: the national apology to the stolen generations and the frontier of indigenous alterity / A. Dirk Moses; title: Contributors.