Textual spaces : aboriginality and cultural studies / Stephen Muecke
- Bib ID:
- 703725
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Muecke, Stephen, 1951-
- Description:
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- Kensington, NSW : New South Wales University Press, 1992
- viii, 214 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0868401013 (paperback)
- Series:
- Communication and culture series.
- Summary:
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Examines the Aboriginal and European construction of meaning through modes of discourse and their textual forms; discourse analysis - anthropological (Berndt), romantic (Bates) and racist (Durack); physicality of text - bodily inscription, narrative (Paddy Roe), performance and memory; problem of authentic history - the story of Pigeon; structuralist and post-structuralist analysis of narrative - custodianship, history, Dreaming, speaking text; Aboriginal literature as political expression - criticism of repression/liberation dualism (Sally Morgan); legal and Aboriginal English; work of Rover Thomas, Sally Morgan and Jimmy Pike and versions of landscape; concepts of pan-Aboriginality (Yothu Yindi) and marginality in the post-modern.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography (p. 207-211).
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Cultural assimilation
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
- Communication and culture -- Australia
- Literature and stories - Fiction
- Social identity - Aboriginality
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Language - Aboriginal English
- Discourse analysis - Narratives
- Literature and stories - Criticism and analysis
- Art - Production - Materials / techniques
- Language - English - Aboriginal English
- Australia
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1992
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