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1 online resource (xxxvii, 350 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Cross/cultures ; 158
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Cross/cultures ; 158.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-329) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: when they write what we read -- Unsettling subjects: critical perspectives on selves in writing and writing selves -- (Re)Writing histories: the emergence and development of Indigenous Australian life-writing -- 'The pencil and the mouth': anthropology, orality, literacy, and modernity -- 'A tape-recorder and an editor': the politics and practices of cross-cultural collaborative text-making -- Crowded house: Galarabulu: stories of the West Kimberley -- Troubling relations: Nyibayarri: Kimberley tracker, Ingelba and the five black matriarchs, and The sun dancin' -- Fighting with our tongues, fighting for our tongues: Warlpiri karnta karnta-kurlangu yimi/Warlpiri women's voices: our lives, our history and Auntie Rita -- Conclusion: reading the word, reading the world: re-reading orality, literacy, and modernity. |
Summary |
Indigenous Australian cultures were long known to the world mainly from the writing of anthropologists, ethnographers, historians, missionaries, and others. Indigenous Australians themselves have worked across a range of genres to challenge and reconfigure this textual legacy, so that they are now strongly represented through their own life-narratives of identity, history, politics, and culture. Even as Indigenous-authored texts have opened up new horizons of engagement with Aboriginal knowledge and representation, however, the textual politics of some of these narratives - particularly when c. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians. |
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History. |
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Grossman, Michele, 1957- Entangled subjects. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2013 9042036443 (OCoLC)830109362 |
ISBN |
9789401209137 (electronic book) |
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9401209138 (electronic book) |
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9042036443 |
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9789042036444 |
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