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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... no. 42 August 2007 of Australian Humanities Review est. 1996 Australian Humanities Review
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Notes

  • Contents indexed selectively.
  • An introduction to the section, 'Approaching Whiteness' (which contains the articles by Rolf de Heer, Philip Morrissey, Fiona Probyn-Rapsey and Alison Ravenscroft), was written by Anne Brewster and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2007 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Problematic Pastoral : Ecocriticism in Australia, Libby Robin , single work review
— Review of The Littoral Zone : Australian Contexts and Their Writers 2007 anthology criticism ;
Personal Reflections on Whiteness and Three Film Projects, Rolf De Heer , single work prose
Aboriginal Children, Philip Morrissey , single work criticism
'Philip Morrissey discusses the function of the child in Phillip Noyce's film The Rabbit Proof Fence and its return from exile by socio-political strategies of whiteness and ethnocidal processes of colonisation. He places this film in the context of other films featuring child characters such as To Kill a Mockingbird, The Night of the Hunter and The Sound of Music and in the context of various writers' (such as Daisy Bates) depictions and summations of the removal of half-caste Indigenous children from their families. He characterises the figure of the child as simultaneously helpless and powerful and argues that the Indigenous child actors in The Rabbit Proof Fence have a theurgical function in "delivering half-caste children from the netherworld to which Australia once tried to exile them" ' (Introduction, Anne Brewster and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey).
Kin-fused Reconciliation : Bringing Them Home, Bringing Us Home, Fiona Probyn , single work criticism
'Fiona Probyn-Rapsey discusses the biopolitical management of Indigenous people within the contemporary nation through an analysis of white liberal discourse on Reconciliation. She looks specifically at the image of the nation as family and the pedagogic nationalist argument for extending the "white" family to include Aboriginal kin and to "bind Aboriginality to whiteness". She analyses how a wide range of Indigenous life narratives (including those by Morgan, Russell, Pilkington-Garimara, Lalor, Scott and Brown, Kinnane, Simon and Randall) describe familial relations between white and Indigenous family members. She argues, in her formulation of the phrase "kin-fused Reconciliation", that a liberal "extended family" model of the Nation is potentially assimilationist' (Anne Brewster and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, Introduction).
Who Is the White Subject? Reading, Writing, Whiteness, Alison Ravenscroft , single work criticism
'From within literary studies, Alison Ravenscroft puts the notion of whiteness under pressure by asking whether the "white" subject isn't fantasmatic. Perhaps there is no white subject as such but only a subject-who-desires-whiteness, "with all the violent material effects of that desire". This subject will seek to stabilise an "I" as "white" through the reiteration of practices intelligible as white within a particular discursive context. Reading is one such moment of reiteration. Rather than the so-called white reader being "before" the text, forming meanings through reading, this subject might instead be thought of as a reading-effect. He or she is made and made again in such textual processes. In particular, Ravenscroft asks whether "settler" readers might make themselves intelligible as white by fantasising themselves as the "white" spectators of an unseeing "black" other in a scene of their own imagining' (Anne Brewster and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, Introduction).
A Comparative Review of Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women by Joseph Wiesenfarth and 'Conversation Piece' in Stravinsky's Lunch by Drusilla Modjeska, Helen Hewitt , single work review
— Review of Stravinsky's Lunch Drusilla Modjeska , 1999 single work biography ;
Helen Hewitt compares 'Conversation Piece' in Drusilla Modjeska's Stravinsky's Lunch with American Joseph Wiesenfarth's Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005).
Kim Mahood's Evolving Geographies, Saskia Beudel , single work review
— Review of Craft for a Dry Lake Kim Mahood , 2000 single work autobiography ; Blow-Ins on the Cold Desert Wind Kim Mahood , 2007 single work essay ;
Human Exceptionalism and the Limits of Animals : A Review of Raymond Gaita, The Philosopher's Dog, Val Plumwood , single work review
— Review of The Philosopher's Dog Raimond Gaita , 2002 selected work essay ;
Untitled, Cameron Muir , single work review
— Review of Manoa vol. 18 no. 2 2006 2006 periodical issue ;
Untitled, Deborah Bird Rose , single work review
— Review of Melodies of Mourning : Music and Emotion in Northern Australia Fiona Magowan , 2007 single work criticism ;
A Sign of the Crimes : Adam Hill Political Artist, Visionary and Critic of Australian Whiteness, Victoria L. Grieves (interviewer), single work interview
'The exhibition "A SIGN OF THE CRIMES" that was held at the Mori Gallery in Sydney in May 2006 proved a splendid confrontation of Australian whiteness and the impact of continuing colonial oppression of Australia's Indigenous people. The Indigenous artist Adam Hill is an exemplar of the urban black: his early years in the outer western suburbs of Sydney led him to a developed political consciousness and deep understanding of the dynamics of Australian society around race, class and whiteness. This political and social consciousness is reflected in his art. I had a conversation with Adam Hill about the development of his indigenous identity, his life experiences, his art and the role of 'whiteness' within it.' (Publication introduction)
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