Alternative title: Special Issue : Indigeneity and Performance : Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... vol. 15 no. 2 2013 of Interventions : International Journal of Postcolonial Studies est. 1998 Interventions : International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
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* Contents derived from the 2013 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Indigeneity, Time and The Cosmopolitics of Postcolonial Belonging in the Atomic Age, Helen Gilbert , single work criticism
'This essay canvasses theatrical renditions of time, mobility and belonging in Marie Clements' 'Burning Vision' (2002) and Trevor Jamieson and Scott Rankin's 'Ngapartji Ngapartji' (2005), each dealing with the social and environmental legacies of the Atomic Age in remote indigenous homelands in Canada and Australia, respectively. The plays situate local memories within the currents of global history by delivering intimate yet epic accounts of the effects of nuclear industrialization on land, water, species and human communities. Drawing from Tim Ingold's theorizations of dwelling and Nigel Clark's recent work on the geological scales of cosmpolitanism, I explore ways in which performances of mobility and intercultural connectedness in these theatrical works articulate with conventional notions of indigeneity as a marker of rootedness or belonging to particular geographical spaces.' (Author's abstract)
(p. 195-210)
Indigenous Performance of History, Loss and Remembrance in Whispering in Our Hearts : The Story of the Mowla Bluff Massacre, Therese Davis , Romaine Moreton , single work criticism
'This essay undertakes a cultural analysis that draws from the authors' different disciplinary and media backgrounds – Romaine Moreton in Indigenous philosophy, spoken-word performance and filmmaking and Therese Davis in film and cultural studies – to examine the Australian historical documentary film Whispering In Our Hearts: The Mowla Bluff Massacre (2001). Directed by Mitch Torres in collaboration with her community, the Nyikina, Mangala and Karrajarri people of northwestern Australia, the film uses a range of performance modes to expose how Indigenous accounts of a massacre in 1916 have been systematically covered over in and through written history. We examine ways in which the film ‘translates’ the meanings of the Indigenous community's songs and stories, making their content available to a wider audience and argue that the film is more than a contested or competing history in the western sense. The community innovates to produce a new historiography by adopting and adapting film technology as a means for transmitting Indigenous embodied ways of knowing the relation between the present and the past, sentient and non-sentient, to perform Indigenous history and remembrance for the purpose of cultural healing.' (Authors abstract)
(p. 211-223)

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