An edition of Frontier skirmishes
(2010)
Frontier skirmishes
literary and cultural debates in Australia after 1992
by Russell West-Pavlov
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Frontier skirmishes: literary and cultural debates in Australia after 1992
2010, Winter
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Frontier wars, history wars, word wars / Russell West-Pavlov
pt. 1. Preliminaries. Historical controversies and the history wars in Australia / Bain Attwood
National narratives and local impacts: the legacy of the Australian history wars in Tasmania / James Boyce
Apologies, agency and resilience / Kim Scott
pt. 2. Concepts. Don McLeod's law: the genesis of the aboriginal concept of the strike / Stephen Muecke
Fencing in the frontier / Russell West-Pavlov
The scene of the crime / Christopher Kelen
pt. 3. Representing the frontier. 'How do you plead?': guilt, responsibility and reconciliation on the frontier in Rolf de Heer's The tracker (2002) / Sarah Pinto
Frontier violence and the power of the 'sacred': Alex Miller's Journey to the stone country and Landscape of farewell / Rebecca Dorgelo
'The myth of settlement': grey nomads, Papunya Tula and frontier violence in Pat Jacobs' Going inland / Frances Devlin-Glass
History: the much less than final frontier, and the story of Thea Astley's short stories in It's raining in Mango / Victoria Kuttainen
'This is how I'm sorry': witnessing the frontier in contemporary Australian historical writing / Kelly Jean Butler
Bearing witness: memory and decreation in Kim Mahood's Craft for a dry lake / Jennifer Wawrzinek
'All are implicated': violence and accountability in Sam Watson's The Kadaitcha Sung and Alexis Wright's Plains of promise / Kate Hall
pt. 4. White aborigines. Re-imagining Australian modernity: performative and non-performative indigenisation in three white Australian cultural texts / Adam Gall
Telling tales about crossing borders: David Malouf, Germaine Greer, and the reception of Remembering Babylon / Peter Otto
The black-white man in Mudrooroo's The Kwinkan / Maureen Clark
pt. 5. Pedagogy, medicine and the law. Rediscovering Carrolup / Tony Hughes-d'Aeth
Teaching the frontier: shifting narratives and cultural boundaries in 1990s school textbooks / Alexandra Sauvage
The albino and the storyteller: eugenics and the best of intentions in 1930s Darwin / Stephen Gray
Epilogue: the national apology to the stolen generations and the frontier of indigenous alterity / A. Dirk Moses
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