Decolonizing the Landscape: Indigenous Cultures in Australia

How Does One Read Across Cultural Boundaries? The Multitude Of Creative Texts, Performance Practices, And Artworks Produced By Indigenous Writers And Artists In Contemporary Australia Calls Upon Anglo-european Academic Readers, Viewers, And Critics To Respond To This Critical Question. Contributors Address A Plethora Of Creative Works By Indigenous Writers, Poets, Playwrights, Filmmakers, And Painters, ... -- Sharing Across Boundaries. From Drill To Dance / Kim Scott -- The Great Tradition: Translating Durrudiya's Songs / Stephen Muecke -- Aboriginal Families, Knowledge, And The Archives: A Case Study / Anna Haebich -- Decolonizing Methodology In An Arnhem Land Garden / Michael Christie -- The 'cultural Design' Of Western Desert Art / Eleonore Wildburger -- Ethical And Other Encounters. Modernism, Antipodernism, And Australian Aboriginality / Ian Henderson -- Material Resonance: Knowing Before Meaning / Bill Ashcroft -- Waiting At The Border: White Filmmaking On The Ground Of Aboriginal Sovereignty / Lisa Slater -- Wounded Spaces/geographies Of Connectivity: Stephen Muecke's No Road (bitumen All The Way), Margaret Somerville's Body/landscape Journals, And Katrina Schlunke's Bluff Rock: Autobiography Of A Massacre / Kay Schaffer -- Recovering The Past: Entangled Histories In Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance / Sue Kossew -- Reading Transformations. The Geopolitical Underground: Alexis Wright's Carpentaria, Mining, And The Sacred / Philip Mead -- Identity And The Re-assertion Of Aboriginal Knowledge In Sam Watson's The Kadaitcha Sung / Heinz Antor -- Gallows Humour And Stereotyping In The Nyungar Writer Alf Taylor's Short Fiction: A White Cross-racial Reading / Anne Brewster -- And In My Dreaming I Can Let Go Of The Spirits Of The Past: Gothicizing The Common Law In Richard Frankland's No Way To Forget / Katrin Althans -- Performative Lives - Transformative Practices: Wesley Enoch And Deborah Mailman, The 7 Stages Of Grieving, And Richard Frankland, Conversations With The Dead / Beate Neumeier. Edited By Beate Neumeier And Kay Schaffer. Includes Bibliographical References.