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y separately published work icon Blacklines : Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians anthology   criticism   essay  
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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Blacklines : Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,:Melbourne University Press , 2003 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
After Aboriginalism : Power, Knowledge and Indigenous Australian Critical Writing, Michèle Grossman , single work criticism
Introduction to Blacklines.
 (p. 1-14)
Introduction : The Aboriginal Critique of Colonial Knowing, Ian Anderson , single work criticism
Introduction to Blacklines Part I. Critical discourses: identities, histories, knowledges
 (p. 17-24)
The End in the Beginning : Re(de)finding Aboriginality : 1994 Wentworth Lecture, Michael Dodson , single work essay
Revised version of a text originally delivered as the W. C. Wentworth Lecture 1994. 'Offers a powerful scholarly critique of the politics and pitfalls of defining 'Aboriginality'.' (Blacklines p. 10)
 (p. 25-42)
Black Bit, White Bit, Ian Anderson , single work essay
'Ian Anderson analyses and contests the effects that anthoropological discourses...have had on the critical project of developing Indigenous 'identities'' (Blacklines p. 10)
 (p. 43-51)
Aboriginality and Corporatism, Philip Morrissey , single work essay
Changes in the definition of Aboriginality in the 1980s, 1990s and the early years of the 21st century.
 (p. 53-59)
Always Was Always Will Be, Jackie Huggins , single work criticism

‘This article might come as a surprise to some, but to many of my colleagues, both Black and white, who know me more intimately, the following is a brief synopsis of my construction of Aboriginality in response to Bain Attwood's 'Portrait of an Aboriginal as an Artist: Sally Morgan and the Construction of Aboriginality'.’ (Opening lines.)

 (p. 60-65)
Tiddas Talkin' Up to the White Woman When Huggins et al. Took on Bell, Aileen Moreton-Robinson , single work essay
Discusses a debate between black and white Australian feminists in the 1990s. The debate centred on an article written by Diane Bell and Topsy Napurrula Nelson, 'Speaking About Rape is Everyone's Business' (Women's Studies International Forum, 1989). The author concludes that aboriginal women 'enter feminism and its debates...not on our terms, but on the terms of white feminists whose race confers dominance and privilege.' (Blacklines p. 77)
 (p. 66-77)
Introduction : Culture Wars, Marcia Langton , single work essay
Introduction to Blacklines Part II. Imaging Indigeneity: art, aesthetics, representations
 (p. 81-91)
Language and Lasers, Lin Onus , single work essay
Lin Onus calls for the acceptance of new movements and expressions in Aboriginal art and warns that to judge Aboriginal art as 'traditional' or 'urban' 'assumes that Aboriginal art should remain static' and denies the artist a place in the development of Australian art.
 (p. 92-96)
Seeing and Seaming : Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Hetti Perkins , single work essay
The author 'shows how earlier anthropological discourses have embedded 'determinist perceptions of authenticity' in contemporary art critical practice,' and looks at 'the politics of intercultural appropriation and the 'hidden undercurrent of dialogue between artists and cultures' that has been problematically 'polarised by centre/periphery models'.' ( Blacklines , p.11-12)
 (p. 97-103)
The Presentation and Interpretation of Aboriginal and Torrres Strait Islander Art : The Yiribana Gallery in Focus, Margo Neale , single work essay
Discusses the creation of the Yiribana Gallery at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1994.
 (p. 104-108)
Aboriginal Art and Film : The Politics of Representation, Marcia Langton , single work essay
In this essay Marcia Langton looks at 'the need to develop a body of knowledge and critical perspective... on representations of Aboriginal people and concerns in art, film, television or other media.' (Blacklines, p115) And that 'without a body of self-representative work there can be no self-critical assessment made and no meaningful discourse on Aboriginal aesthetics by Aborigines themselves' (Blacklines, p.124)
 (p. 109-124)
Introduction: Resistance, Recovery and Revitalisation, Aileen Moreton-Robinson , single work essay
Introduction to Blacklines Part III. Knowledge in action: politics, policies, practices
 (p. 127-131)
Better, Martin Nakata , single work essay
Using scholarly analysis and personal narrative, Nakata shows that 'the culture of education may change ...but its politics...remain unchallenged...western experts are still naming the game, still identifying the problem, and they are still providing the 'solution' on our behalf'. (Blacklines, p. 142) He concludes that 'as people positioned in the margins, and as people of colour, we need to be critically literate not simply in any liberal sense, but in a political sense.' (Blacklines, p. 144)
 (p. 132-144)
'Nothing has Changed' : The Making and Unmaking of Koori Culture, Tony Birch , single work essay
'Tony Birch meticulously examines the contradictory impulses and drives behind the political saga of trying to restore the Indigenous-language name for...the (currently named) Grampians(Gariwerd) mountain range.' (Blacklines, p. 13)
 (p. 145-158)
Australia's Indigenous Languages, Jeanie Bell , single work essay
Based on her 1993 Boyer Lecture, Bell discusses the 'social, spiritual and heritage significance of Indigenous language survival and revival with reference to the history of Murri languages in south-eastern Queensland.' (Blacklines, p 13)
 (p. 159-170)
Overturning the Doctrine : Indigenous People and Wilderness--Being Aboriginal in the Environmental Movement, Fabienne Bayet , single work essay
Discusses 'the historical tensions between the discourses of 'black' and 'green' ideologies...' (Blacklines, p. 13)
 (p. 171-180)
Wandering Girl: Who Defines "Authenticity" in Aboriginal Literature?, Sonja Kurtzer , single work criticism (p. 181-188)
Afterword : Moving, Remembering, Singing Our Place, Philip Morrissey , single work criticism (p. 189-193)
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