Transgressions : critical Australian indigenous histories / Ingereth Macfarlane and Mark Hannah (editors).

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TextSeries: Aboriginal history monograph series ; 16.Publisher: Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU E Press : 2007Publisher: Aboriginal History, Incorporated, 2007Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 249 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781921313431
1921313439
9781921313448
1921313447

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Transgressions.DDC classification:

994.0049915 22

LOC classification:

DU124.F57

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

François Péron and the Tasmanians: an unrequited romance / Shino Konishi -- Moving blackwards: black power and the Aboriginal embassy / Kathy Lothian 19 -- Criminal justice and transgression on northern Australian cattle stations / Thalia Anthony -- Dreaming the circle: indigeneity and the longing for belonging in White Australia / Jane Mulcock -- Resisting the captured image: how Gwoja Tjungurrayi, 'One Pound Jimmy', escaped the 'Stone Age' / Jillian E Barnes -- On the romances of marriage, love and solitude: freedom and transgression in Cape York Peninsula in the early to mid twentieth century / Jinki Trevillian -- 'Hanging no good for blackfellow': looking into the life of Musquito / Naomi Parry -- Leadership: the quandary of Aboriginal societies in crises, 1788 -- 1830, and 1966 / Dennis Foley -- Sedentary topography: the impact of the Christian Mission Society's 'civilising' agenda on the spatial structure of life in the Roper Region of northern Australia / Angelique Edmonds -- Sinful enough for Jesus: guilt and Christianisation at Mapoon, Queensland / Devin Bowles -- Corrupt desires and the wages of sin: Indigenous people, missionaries and male sexuality, 1830-1850 / Jessie Mitchell.

Summary: "This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers. It has its origins in 2003 when Mark Hannah, then a doctoral student in the Centre for Cross Cultural Research at The Australian National University, invited a group of early career scholars to meet in Canberra. They brought their diverse social science and humanities backgrounds to the uncovering of creative Indigenous responses to the colonial encounter in Australia, and fresh ways of writing about these. Their studies were focused in diverse parts of Australia and on different time periods, but shared a common interest in developing critical re-assessments of Australian colonial and anti-colonial histories. Their meeting encouraged face-to-face exchanges that could short-circuit the isolation often experienced by cross-disciplinary, original scholars. It also emphasised writerly aspects of creative thinking, promoting the portrayal of character, alternative prose styles and inventive narrative forms. The authors' responses to these invitations have flavoured the commissioned papers presented here. The critical and creative drives which inform them shines out in their writing. They are exciting and sometimes surprising in the angles they take, and the cross-overs of genre or subject that they offer"--Provided by publisher

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"This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers. It has its origins in 2003 when Mark Hannah, then a doctoral student in the Centre for Cross Cultural Research at The Australian National University, invited a group of early career scholars to meet in Canberra. They brought their diverse social science and humanities backgrounds to the uncovering of creative Indigenous responses to the colonial encounter in Australia, and fresh ways of writing about these. Their studies were focused in diverse parts of Australia and on different time periods, but shared a common interest in developing critical re-assessments of Australian colonial and anti-colonial histories. Their meeting encouraged face-to-face exchanges that could short-circuit the isolation often experienced by cross-disciplinary, original scholars. It also emphasised writerly aspects of creative thinking, promoting the portrayal of character, alternative prose styles and inventive narrative forms. The authors' responses to these invitations have flavoured the commissioned papers presented here. The critical and creative drives which inform them shines out in their writing. They are exciting and sometimes surprising in the angles they take, and the cross-overs of genre or subject that they offer"--Provided by publisher