y separately published work icon Postcolonial Text periodical issue   peer reviewed assertion
Issue Details: First known date: 2005... vol. 1 no. 2 2005 of Postcolonial Text est. 2004 Postcolonial Text
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* Contents derived from the 2005 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Arresting Metaphors : Anti-Colonial Females in Australian Cinema, Anthony Lambert , single work criticism
'This paper attempts to advance new understandings of female cinematic agency by interrogating its connection to patterns of cultural colonialism in Australian film. The visual presence of female Aboriginality in contemporary Australian film undermines, in subtle and explicit ways, the possibility of a truly secure white identity tied to the Australian environment. It does so through the introduction of the complexities of Aboriginal difference, through the subversion of white cinematic narratives and mythologies, and through physical agency and action. In this way, the anti-colonial impulse in the cinema emerges, in films which effectively 'unearth' the continuing cinematic metaphors of colonial power. -- From the journal.
Enacting Postcolonial Theory, Paul Sharrad , single work criticism
Set Adrift: Identity and the Postcolonial Present in Gould's Book of Fish, Zach Weir , single work criticism
'This article presents a critical examination of the metafictional devices used by Richard Flanagan in developing a pointed fictional critique of postcolonial Tasmania in his novel Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish. Highlights Flanagan's insistence on developing and maintaining the postcolonial present as a place of literary intervention.' -- From the journal.
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