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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 The Postcolonial Eye : White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race
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'The Postcolonial Eye is about the 'eye' and the 'I' in the contemporary Australian scene of race, specifically the subjectivity of vision and the troubled project of knowing one another across the cultural divide between white and Indigenous Australia. Though located in Australian Studies, Ravenscroft's book, in its interrogation of race and whiteness and engagement with European and American literature and criticism, has far-reaching implications for understanding the important question of race and vision.' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Farnham, Surrey,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Ashgate ,
      ca. 2012 .
      image of person or book cover 7505284377593957327.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: viii, 183p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliographical references and index.
      ISBN: 1409430790 (ebook), 9781409430797 (ebook), 9781409430780 (hardcover : alk. paper), 1409430782 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Works about this Work

[Review Essay] : The Postcolonial Eye : White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race Alison Ravenscroft , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies , vol. 8 no. 2 2015; (p. 55-57)

— Review of The Postcolonial Eye : White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race Alison Ravenscroft , 2012 single work criticism

'The first chapter of Alison Ravenscroft’s The Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race begins with a description of a photograph, property of the South Australian Museum, series AA346. This photograph is one of thousands taken during the Board for Anthropological Research’s Harvard and Adelaide Universities’ 1938 expedition. In it, two Murri girls stare at us, one with a shaved head, the other wearing a card marked ‘N1474’. What we see in this photograph, the violence of colonial history, is striking, but equally (perhaps more) striking, Ravenscroft suggests, is what we fail to see. “Who were these girls and what happened to them after the camera closed its eye and the photographer turned away?” she asks (7). Although we can see signs of colonial subject formation—exemplified by the name ‘N1474’—no matter how closely we look, we cannot see the girls’ fate, nor the fate of the researcher behind the camera, the one “who looked upon an image from which he excluded himself but in which he was implicated nevertheless” (7). Furthermore, “How [are we] to bring such a scene into writing?” Ravenscroft asks, implicating herself (as well as us, as readers of cultural studies and co-viewers of this photograph) in the categorical violence perpetrated by the invisible photographer (7).' (Introduction)

Questions of Uncertainty Timothy Steains , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , May no. 56 2014;

— Review of The Postcolonial Eye : White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race Alison Ravenscroft , 2012 single work criticism
[Untitled] Monique Rooney , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 28 no. 3 2013; (p. 95-98)

— Review of The Postcolonial Eye : White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race Alison Ravenscroft , 2012 single work criticism
[Untitled] Bronwyn Lacken , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 7 no. 5 2013;

— Review of The Postcolonial Eye : White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race Alison Ravenscroft , 2012 single work criticism
Falling from View : Whiteness, Appropriation and the Complicities of Desire in The Postcolonial Eye Anne Maxwell , Odette Kelada , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 12 no. 3 2012;

— Review of The Postcolonial Eye : White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race Alison Ravenscroft , 2012 single work criticism
Falling from View : Whiteness, Appropriation and the Complicities of Desire in The Postcolonial Eye Anne Maxwell , Odette Kelada , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 12 no. 3 2012;

— Review of The Postcolonial Eye : White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race Alison Ravenscroft , 2012 single work criticism
Review of The Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race Jane Haggis , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , vol. 27 no. 73 2012; (p. 333-334)

— Review of The Postcolonial Eye : White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race Alison Ravenscroft , 2012 single work criticism
Review of The Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race Alan Han , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , vol. 41 no. 2 2012; (p. 243-244)

— Review of The Postcolonial Eye : White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race Alison Ravenscroft , 2012 single work criticism
Another Way of Reading The Postcolonial Eye Alison Ravenscroft , 2012 single work review criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 12 no. 3 2012;

— Review of The Postcolonial Eye : White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race Alison Ravenscroft , 2012 single work criticism
A reply to Anne Maxwell and Odette Kelada.
[Untitled] Bronwyn Lacken , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 7 no. 5 2013;

— Review of The Postcolonial Eye : White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race Alison Ravenscroft , 2012 single work criticism
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