Forgetting Aborigines / Chris Healy
- Bib ID:
- 4274880
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Healy, Chris
- Description:
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- Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2008
- 250 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780868408842
- Summary:
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"How is it that Aboriginality seems to appear and disappear in public culture? One of the key ways in which this happens is through some strange and repetitive patterns of forgetting and remembering: forgetting dispossession and then recalling it much later, forgetting nuclear testing on indigenous lands and then uncovering that history; forgetting the removal of indigenous children and then remembering their stories. This cycle is both dishonest and destructive. Writing against these tendencies, this book is about the politics of memory. It attempts to remember the continuity of the historical presence of Aboriginality and to remembering how that presence has been forgotten."--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliography: p. 221-241.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- History
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
- Politics and Government - National symbols and events - Bicentennial, 1988
- Art
- Race relations - Representation - Media
- Media - Broadcast media - Television
- Social identity - Aboriginality
- Politics and Government - National symbols and events - King plates
- Race relations - Representation - History
- Economic sectors - Tourism
- Papunya (South Central NT SF52-16)
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2008
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