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'Examines the ambivalence of travellers' engagements with Aboriginality. Concentrating on a period marked by the rise of discourses on Aboriginality championing indigenous empowerment, and reconciliation, the author analyses how travel to Black Australia has become a means of discovering new styles of interracial engagement.' (Publication summary)
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Introduction 1. Journeys to Another Country: Utopia, Melancholia, and Aboriginality in Travel Writing
2. Exotic Travellers: Aboriginality in Robyn Davidson’s Tracks (1980) and Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines (1987)
3. Free Spirits: Aboriginality and Australian New Age Travel Books
4. "Britz Down Under": Race and Ordinary Australia
5. Journeys to Country: Sally Morgan and Ruby Langford Ginibi "Return Home"
6. Dark Places: The Ghosts of Terra Nullius Conclusion
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