Aboriginality
Articles
- Biopolitical Correspondences: Settler Nationalism, Thanatopolitics, and the Perils of Hybridity
‘How does (post)colonial literary culture, so often annexed to nationalist concerns, interface with what Michel Foucault called biopolitics? Biopolitics can be defined as the regularisation…
1 June 2011 - In His Own Sweet Time: Carmen’s Coming Out
Discusses Wandra Koolmatrie's autobiography, My Own Sweet Time (1994), later revealed as a fiction written by Leon Carmen. 'In this paper, I want to map…
1 October 2004 - Subdivisions of Suburbia: The Politics of Place in Melissa Lucashenko’s Steam Pigs and Amanda Lohrey’s Camille’s Bread
The Australian intelligentsia's critical or ambivalent response to the suburbs and suburbia has been well-documented, though the gender-blindness of urban theorising often goes unremarked (Harman…
1 November 1998 - Helping Yourself: Marlo Morgan and the Fabrication of Indigenous Wisdom
IN my role as a teacher of Australian literature and Australian studies in an Australian university, I find my classes regularly contain a significant number…
1 October 2004 - Mudrooroo: Crafty Imposter or Rebel with a Cause
Hillel Schwartz defines imposture as 'the compulsive assumption of invented lives' and impersonation as 'the concerted assumption of another's public identity' (72). This is not…
1 October 2004 - Inscription and the Settler Colony: Theorising Aboriginal Textuality Today25 May 2024