Epigraph:
The Half-caste: Means of Disappearance
The modern world has many problems to face. The half-caste is not one of them. He (or she) is merely a passing phase, an incident in history, an interesting event in what we call 'progress', a natural transmutation in what we know as cultural evolution. He will solve himself and disappear. That much is certain; it is not problematical. The only problem that enters into it, though it is a palpable misuse of the word to call it that, is how long it is going to take. A few centuries maybe; perhaps much less. ... on the ground alone that he is a nuisance to us, we should hurry on his disappearance.
–West Australian, 22 July 1933
Epigraph:
Black May Become White: Work of Elevating the Natives
The black will go white. It is exemplified in the quarter-castes, and by the gradual absorption of the native Australian black race by the white. The position is analogous to that of a small stream of dirty water entering a larger clear stream. Eventually the colour of the smaller is lost.
– Daily News, 3 October 1933
Kim Scott Lecture
Edith Cowan University, Kurongkurl Katitjin School of Indigenous Australian Studies
,
Perth
:
Edith Cowan University, Kurongkurl Katitjin School of Indigenous Australian Studies
,
2001
8612083
single work
film/TV
criticism
Kim discusses some of the processes that he used to research, draft and edit Benang.
Anna Haebich investigates how the West Australian Department of Indigenous Affairs archives (1898-1972) have been utilised by Indigenous writers/researchers.
'Taking Kerry Reed-Gilbert’s anthology The Strength of Us as Women: Black Women Speak (2000) as touchstone, the chapter undertakes a conversation between two Aboriginal women poets from Narungga and Wiradjuri standpoints about the transformative power of Indigenous poetry and its significant contribution to literature in the world. Offering an alternative to the essay, the authors discuss embodied engagements with the colonial archive and the theme of relationality that informs so much of Aboriginal writing. The chapter considers the potential of poetry to be both an affective tool and literary intervention. It outlines the methods of Gathering and Archival-Poetic praxis as ways to explore the counter-narrative potential of poetry. In considering the role of memory work and memory-making, the authors also discuss blood memory and body memory.'
Source: Abstract.
In Search of Blak Magic : Magic Realism ~ Aboriginal Novels
Ultimo
:
2024
28277078
2024
single work
thesis
'As a published writer who applies magic realism to my works of fiction, I undertook this practice-related research project to contribute to existing global research on magic realism in literature, and to better understand my own creative practice. This research focused on two questions: what are key attributes of magic realist literature? And to what extent can magic realism be identified in Aboriginal authored novels?'
Source: Abstract.
