Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Indigenous Knowledge and Global Translation : Reconstruction of Australia through Aboriginal Imagination in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
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'This chapter was originally tided 'Negotiation between the Local and the Global in Literary Production in Oceania: Should It Be Translated?' at the time of its presentation. The presentation mainly focused on the more literal dimension of translation, the problem of how to use indigenous languages in English writings and the possibility of forming literature as a new kind of contesting ground for multicultural cross reading by referring to several plays and works of fiction written in English, Maori and Samoan. The latter half of the presentation, which was intended to be a discussion on more metaphorical dimensions of cultural translation of the indigenous knowledge system, was curtailed due to the time limit. This paper focuses on that part, analyzing a post-colonial ecological novel by an Aboriginal writer of multi-ethnic descent. We can see in the novel a post-colonial theme of indigenization of Western culture and the negotiation of an indigenous voice and a global, pan-indigenous identity. It also gives an insight into the creative imagination necessary for the sustainability of an indigenous community in this age of globalization.' (Introduction)
 

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    y separately published work icon Performing Identities : Celebrating Indigeneity in the Arts G. N. Devy (editor), Geoffrey V. Davis (editor), K. K. Chakravarty (editor), New York (City) : Routledge , 2017 21550005 2017 anthology criticism

    'Performing Identities brings together essays by scholars, artists and activists engaged in understanding and conserving rapidly disappearing local knowledge forms of indigenous communities across continents. It depicts the imaginative transactions evident in the interface of identity and cultural transformation, raising the issue of cultural rights of these otherwise marginalized communities.' (Publication summary)

    New York (City) : Routledge , 2017
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