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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Representing Aboriginal Childhood : The Politics of Memory and Forgetting in Australia
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'This book critically investigates the ways in which Aboriginal children and childhood figure in Australia’s cultural life to mediate Australians’ ambivalence about the colonial origins of the nation, as well as its possible post-colonial futures. Engaging with representations in literature, film, governmental discourse, and news and infotainment media, it shows how ways of representing Aboriginal children and childhood serve a national project of representing settler-Australian values, through the forgetting of colonial violence. Analysing the ways in which certain negative aspects of Australian nationhood are concealed, rendered invisible, and repressed through practices of representing Aboriginal children and childhood, it challenges accepted ‘shared understandings’ regarding Australian-ness and settler-colonial sovereignty.

'Through an innovative interdisciplinary approach that engages critical theory, post-colonial theory, literary studies, history, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, Representing Aboriginal Childhood responds to urgent questions that pivot on the role of the Indigenous child within settler nation-state formations. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and social geography, collective memory, politics and cultural studies.' (Publication summary)

Contents

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Gumnut Babies and ‘Babes in the Wood’ : The Nativised White Child, Joanne Faulkner , single work criticism
Breeding Out the Colour’ in GevaColor : Jedda, Joanne Faulkner , single work criticism
Finding ‘Home’ Through the Child : Bringing Them Home and Assimilationism’s Present, Joanne Faulkner , single work criticism

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Abingdon, Oxfordshire,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Routledge ,
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: vii, 230 pp.
      Description: illus.
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      • Published October 8, 2024
      ISBN: 9780367568542
Last amended 10 Oct 2024 11:57:47
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