Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Sovereignty, Self-Determination and Speaking Our Freedoms : An Interview with Julie Dowling
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'Julie Dowling yarned up her exhibition Yagu Gurlbarl (Big Secret) with Westerly's Editor of Indigenous Writing, Elfie Shiosaki. This exhibition is touring with Art on the Move in 2018.' (Introduction)

Notes

  • Editor's note: This yarn was recorded in August 2018. It has been edited with the approval of the artist to ensure this transcript meaningfully represents her voice. The stories contained withing this interview may not be reproduced without the story-owner's permission.

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    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 63 no. 2 November Catherine Noske (editor), Josephine Taylor (editor), 2018 15315272 2018 periodical issue

    'Writing has long been recognised as a way of locating the self. As a concept, this functions in multifaceted ways, from the importance of cultural expression and representation, to philosophical and linguistic conceptualisations of subjectivity in language. Emile Benveniste wrote of the fall into language : 

    'it is in and through language that man constitutes himself as a subject, because language alone establishes the concept of 'ego' in reality, it its reality which is that of the being. '

    (From the Editors 8)

    2018
    pg. 26-34
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