Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 'It's All Migloo Crap to Me' : Indentity Politics in Contemporary Indigenous Writing in Queensland
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'This article provides a brief literary history of Indigenous writing in Queensland. The literature covered here is informed by the experiences of the personal, the familial and the communal, and enlarges the meanings of both the literary and the political because Indigenous writing is part of, not separate from, the daily lives and struggles of its authors. Related to this is the question of the sacred, and Indigenous relationships to the land are an abiding preoccupation of the writing explored here. Literature, as well as the way it is read, is intimately related to Indigenous efforts to achieve cultural autonomy and calls for recognition of difference and shared humanity and agency. It thereby becomes a tool of recognition, acknowledgment and transformation, producing new kinds of knowledges and new kinds of readers.' (Extract)

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    y separately published work icon Queensland Review vol. 12 no. 1 2005 Z1224018 2005 periodical issue 'This issue of Queensland Review coincides with the death of Queensland's longest serving and most controversial Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. For many Queenslanders, this event provided an opportunity to reflect on the 'Joh era', and to consider how Queensland has changed since it came to an end in 1987. As Sandy McCutcheon's Australia Talks Back program on the legacy of Sir Joh demonstrated, the former Premier continues to divide Queenslanders. 1 The post-mortem reflections on Sir Joh have, however, brought into sharp relief a change in perceptions of the state of Queensland from within as well as without. The dismissive characterisation of Queensland as Australia's 'cultural desert' has been replaced by a new interest in the state's distinctive history and its future directions. The work published here exemplifies· the way in which research into Queensland's local and regional specificities and histories now engages robustly with broader national and international debates.' (Editorial) 2005 pg. 37-46
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