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'This book explores the ways in which Australian Indigenous filmmakers, performers and writers work within their Indigenous communities to tell the stories of early Indigenous resistance leaders who fought against British invaders and settlers, thus keeping their legacies alive and connected to community in the present. It offers the first comprehensive and trans-disciplinary analysis of how the stories of Pemulwuy, Jandamarra and Yagan (Bidjigal, Bunuba and Noongar freedom fighters, respectively) have been retold in the past forty years across different media. Combining textual and historical analysis with original interviews with Indigenous cultural producers, it foregrounds the multimodal nature of Indigenous storytelling and the dynamic relationship of these stories to reclamations of sovereignty in the present. It adds a significant new chapter to the study of Indigenous history-making as political action, while modelling a new approach to stories of frontier resistance leaders and providing a greater understanding of how the decolonizing power of Indigenous screen, stage and text production connects past, present and future acts of resistance.'

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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Peter Lang ,       2019 .
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      Extent: x, 244p.p.
      ISBN: 9781788745437
      Series: y separately published work icon Australian Studies : Interdisciplinary Perspectives Anne Brewster (editor), Oxford : Peter Lang , 2017 13852684 2017 series - publisher criticism

      'This interdisciplinary book series showcases dynamic, innovative research on contemporary and historical Australian culture. It aims to foster interventions in established debates on Australia as well as opening up new areas of enquiry that reflect the diversity of interests in the scholarly community. The series includes research in a range of fields across the humanities and social sciences, such as history, literature, media, philosophy, cultural studies, gender studies and politics. Proposals are encouraged in areas such as Indigenous studies, critical race and whiteness studies, women’s studies, studies in colonialism and coloniality, multiculturalism, the experimental humanities and ecocriticism. Of particular interest is research that promotes the study of Australia in cross-cultural, transnational and comparative contexts. Cross-disciplinarity and new methodologies are welcomed. The series will feature the work of leading authors but also invites proposals from emerging scholars. Proposals for monographs and high-quality edited volumes are welcomed. Proposals and manuscripts considered for the series will be subject to rigorous peer review and editorial attention. The series is affiliated with the International Australian Studies Association.' (Publication summary)

             Number in series: 3
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Works about this Work

Matteo Dutto. Legacies of Indigenous Resistance: Pemulwuy, Jandamarra and Yagan in Australian Indigenous Film, Theatre and Literature Estelle Castro-Koshy , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Commonwealth Essays and Studies , vol. 43 no. 2 2021;
— Review of Legacies of Indigenous Resistance : Pemulwuy, Jandamarra and Yagan in Australian Indigenous Film, Theatre and Literature Matteo Dutto , 2019 multi chapter work criticism

'Matteo Dutto’s Legacies of Indigenous Resistance, which was recently shortlisted for the 2021 ASAL Alvie Egan Award, is a remarkable book. It is the first book that examines comparatively the legacies of three Indigenous Australian resistance leaders, Pemulwuy, Yagan, and Jandamarra, and provides close analysis of works by Indigenous Australian writers, filmmakers, performers, and communities, who have retold their stories. Pemulwuy, a Bidjigal/Eora man (from the area spreading west from what is now called Botany Bay to Salt Pan Creek) was born around 1750 and fought against the British between 1790 and 1802; a Bunuba (from the Kimberley region of Western Australia), Jandamarra was born around 1873 and killed in 1897; a Noongar (from the Perth area), Yagan was born around 1795 and killed in 1833. Interested in “the social power of storytelling” (3), Dutto, an Italian scholar, focuses on these historical figures because their stories “have produced since their death the largest corpus of incarnations across different media” (12), and “forc[e] us to acknowledge the unceded sovereignty of First Nations across Australia and to question the legitimacy of settler colonial authority” (11).' (Introduction)
Rev. of Matteo Dutto, Legacies of Indigenous Resistance: Pemulwuy, Jandamarra and Yagan in Australian Indigenous Film, Theatre and Literature Stephen Muecke , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia , vol. 10 no. 2 2019;
— Review of Legacies of Indigenous Resistance : Pemulwuy, Jandamarra and Yagan in Australian Indigenous Film, Theatre and Literature Matteo Dutto , 2019 multi chapter work criticism
Rev. of Matteo Dutto, Legacies of Indigenous Resistance: Pemulwuy, Jandamarra and Yagan in Australian Indigenous Film, Theatre and Literature Stephen Muecke , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia , vol. 10 no. 2 2019;
— Review of Legacies of Indigenous Resistance : Pemulwuy, Jandamarra and Yagan in Australian Indigenous Film, Theatre and Literature Matteo Dutto , 2019 multi chapter work criticism
Matteo Dutto. Legacies of Indigenous Resistance: Pemulwuy, Jandamarra and Yagan in Australian Indigenous Film, Theatre and Literature Estelle Castro-Koshy , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Commonwealth Essays and Studies , vol. 43 no. 2 2021;
— Review of Legacies of Indigenous Resistance : Pemulwuy, Jandamarra and Yagan in Australian Indigenous Film, Theatre and Literature Matteo Dutto , 2019 multi chapter work criticism

'Matteo Dutto’s Legacies of Indigenous Resistance, which was recently shortlisted for the 2021 ASAL Alvie Egan Award, is a remarkable book. It is the first book that examines comparatively the legacies of three Indigenous Australian resistance leaders, Pemulwuy, Yagan, and Jandamarra, and provides close analysis of works by Indigenous Australian writers, filmmakers, performers, and communities, who have retold their stories. Pemulwuy, a Bidjigal/Eora man (from the area spreading west from what is now called Botany Bay to Salt Pan Creek) was born around 1750 and fought against the British between 1790 and 1802; a Bunuba (from the Kimberley region of Western Australia), Jandamarra was born around 1873 and killed in 1897; a Noongar (from the Perth area), Yagan was born around 1795 and killed in 1833. Interested in “the social power of storytelling” (3), Dutto, an Italian scholar, focuses on these historical figures because their stories “have produced since their death the largest corpus of incarnations across different media” (12), and “forc[e] us to acknowledge the unceded sovereignty of First Nations across Australia and to question the legitimacy of settler colonial authority” (11).' (Introduction)
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