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1 Resistant Images: Official Amnesias and Performances of Memory in the Top End Lesley Delmenico , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 46 2005; (p. 117-123) 'In Darwin, community performances and postcolonial issues intersect vibrantly to create a form of what Barbara Harlow has termed "resistance literature," genres that rewrite history form the bottom and that counter the attempted erasures of official historiographies. Such Foucaldian amnesias have been vividly contested in recent years by indigenous performances of dance and drama that inscribe histories by painting their images onto dancing, singing and acting bodies in order to remember. These performances resist official forgettings, both of the cultural losses caused by enforced resettlement in "Ngapa: Rainstorm Dreaming", and of the extent of World War II Japanese raids in the "Bombing of Darwin". Performed respectively by the Lajamanu community with Darwin's Tracksdance and the Tiwi Island Dancers, these indigenous productions kept alive in Top End memory histories that were curiously suppressed in Darwin museum display and public memorials.' Source: www.adsa.edu.au/ (Sighted 07/01/2009).
1 Historiography and Rewriting : Performing on/as East Timorese Bodies in Death at Balibo and Diablo! Lesley Delmenico , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 40 2002; (p. 8-25) Examines the effects of East Timorese events upon their representation in Australia, and the responses created by Australian theatrical performances: a cycle of representation and resistance. Explores ways in which two Darwin plays produced by Timorese exiles - Death at Balibo and Diablo! - worked to voice support for resistance in exile and for resistance in East Timor at times when its continuation seemed futile.
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