| ISBN |
9783825357610 |
| 3825357619 |
| Title |
Frontier skirmishes : literary and cultural debates in Australia after 1992 / edited by Russell West-Pavlov, Jennifer Wawrzinek. |
| Portion of title |
Literary and cultural debates in Australia after 1992 |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Heidelberg : Universitatsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, c2010. |
| ©2010 |
| Description |
332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Frontier wars, history wars, word wars / Russell West-Pavlov -- pt. 1. Preliminaries. Historical controversies and the history wars in Australia / Bain Attwood -- National narratives and local impacts: the legacy of the Australian history wars in Tasmania / James Boyce -- Apologies, agency and resilience / Kim Scott -- pt. 2. Concepts. Don McLeod's law: the genesis of the aboriginal concept of the strike / Stephen Muecke -- Fencing in the frontier / Russell West-Pavlov -- The scene of the crime / Christopher Kelen -- 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 -- Frontier violence and the power of the 'sacred': Alex Miller's Journey to the stone country and Landscape of farewell / Rebecca Dorgelo -- 'The myth of settlement': grey nomads, Papunya Tula and frontier violence in Pat Jacobs' Going inland / Frances Devlin-Glass -- History: the much less than final frontier, and the story of Thea Astley's short stories in It's raining in Mango / Victoria Kuttainen -- 'This is how I'm sorry': witnessing the frontier in contemporary Australian historical writing / Kelly Jean Butler -- Bearing witness: memory and decreation in Kim Mahood's Craft for a dry lake / Jennifer Wawrzinek -- 'All are implicated': violence and accountability in Sam Watson's The Kadaitcha Sung and Alexis Wright's Plains of promise / Kate Hall -- pt. 4. White aborigines. Re-imagining Australian modernity: performative and non-performative indigenisation in three white Australian cultural texts / Adam Gall -- Telling tales about crossing borders: David Malouf, Germaine Greer, and the reception of Remembering Babylon / Peter Otto -- The black-white man in Mudrooroo's The Kwinkan / Maureen Clark -- pt. 5. Pedagogy, medicine and the law. Rediscovering Carrolup / Tony Hughes-d'Aeth -- Teaching the frontier: shifting narratives and cultural boundaries in 1990s school textbooks / Alexandra Sauvage -- The albino and the storyteller: eugenics and the best of intentions in 1930s Darwin / Stephen Gray -- Epilogue: the national apology to the stolen generations and the frontier of indigenous alterity / A. Dirk Moses -- Contributors. |
| Subjects |
Australian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism |
| Literature and society -- Australia -- History |
| Culture conflict -- Australia -- History |
| Historiography -- Australia |
| Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia |
| Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
West-Pavlov, Russell (Editor.) |
| Wawrzinek, Jennifer (Editor.) |
| Series |
Anglistische Forschungen v. 409. |
| Call number |
820.9 FRO |
