Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writings By Indigenous Australians

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing, Oct 16, 2012 - Social Science - 260 pages
Written by established and emerging Indigenous intellectuals from a variety of positions, perspectives and places, these essays generate new ways of seeing and understanding Indigenous Australian history, culture, identity and knowledge in both national and global contexts. From museums to Mabo, anthropology to art, feminism to film, land rights to literature, the essays collected here offer provocative insights and compelling arguments around the historical and contemporary issues confronting Indigenous Australians today.

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After Aboriginalism power knowledge and Indigenous Australian critical writing
1
Critical discourses identities histories knowledges
15
the Aboriginal critique of colonial knowing
17
The end in the beginning redefinding Aboriginality
25
Black bit white bit
43
Aboriginality and corporatism
52
Always was always will be
60
Tiddas talkin up to the white woman when Huggins et al took on Bell
66
Aboriginal art and film the politics of representation
109
Knowledge in action politics policies practices
125
resistance recovery and revitalisation
127
Better
132
Nothing has changed the making and unmaking of Koori culture
145
Australias Indigenous languages
159
Overturning the doctrine Indigenous people and wilderness being Aboriginal in the environmental movement
171
Wandering Girl who defines authenticity in Aboriginal literature?
181

Imaging Indigeneity art aesthetics representations
78
culture wars
81
Language and lasers
92
Seeing and seaming contemporary Aboriginal art
97
The presentation and interpretation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art the Yiribana Gallery in focus
104
Moving remembering singing our place
189
Notes
194
Bibliography
214
Index
232
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