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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Sacred Australia : Post-Secular Considerations
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Thornbury, Preston - Northcote area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,:Clouds of Magellan , 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Preface, Makarand Paranjape , single work criticism (p. ix-?)
A Passage to Uluru : Rethinking Sacred Australia, Makarand Paranjape , single work essay (p. 1-20)
The Sacred in Australian Culture, Bill Ashcroft , single work criticism (p. 21-43)
Spirituality in Australia Today, David J. Tacey , single work essay (p. 44-64)
Not to Generalise : The 'Sacred' in Yanyuwa Country, John Bradley , single work essay (p. 65-84)
Journey to Sacred Ground : Ethics and Aesthetics of Country, Deborah Bird Rose , single work essay (p. 85-95)
Sovereignty and Treaty in Religious Imagination, Mark G. Brett , single work essay (p. 96-118)
Rethinking the Sacred—Poetry as Satyagraha : A Gandhian Reading of Les Murray's 'Walking to the Cattle Place', Sudhir Kumar , single work criticism (p. 137-155)
Being Job—in Three Parts, Peter Boyle , single work essay (p. 156-165)
The Racialised Self, Ecology and the Sacred in Xavier Herbert's Poor Fellow My Country The Eco-Centric Self and the Sacred in Xavier Herbert's Poor Fellow My Country, Frances Devlin-Glass , single work criticism
'Herbert's Poor Fellow My Country (1975) anticipated edgy twenty-first century national conversations about race relations and ecology currently occurring in Australia in the disciplines of history and historiography, anthropology, eco-philosophy, and literature. Set in the remote pastoral frontier of the Northern Territory in the 1930s and 1940s, the novel anatomises the genocidal practices of an encyclopaedic range of Australian institutions (political movements of the left and right, the squattocracy, the church, the law, the education and 'welfare' bureaucracies) and satirises the 'Aboriginal industry's' systematic ignorance and denigration of Aboriginal culture. The novel promotes a new kind of nationalism which incorporates Indigenous citizenry as active players. Despite its manifest flaws, its ideological hyperbole and intense pessimism, and perhaps because of its extraordinarily expansive canvas (it is longer than War and Peace) and its formal experimentation, the novelist's level of familiarity with Aboriginal culture, and his humanity are remarkable and prescient, especially in the light of current dysfunctionality in Aboriginal communities that have been systematically robbed of cultural pride. This paper looks behind Herbert's satire (tub-thumpery?) to his radical views on what Aboriginal culture and in particular its mythological understandings of land have to offer to the "common-wealth". The novel will be read in the light of contemporary post-colonially-inflected and Indigenous-centred oral history, mythology, and Australian eco-philosophy.' (Author's abstract)
(p. 166-187)
Note: With title: The Racialised Self, Ecology and the Sacred in Xavier Herbert's Poor Fellow My Country
Sacredness and Uncaring for the Other : Levinas and Patrick White, John Docker , single work criticism (p. 188-209)
ANZAC : The Sacred in the Secular, Graham Seal , single work essay (p. 210-224)
A World of the Invisible, Claudia Terstappen , single work essay (p. 225-237)
Sports Loving Australians : A Sacred Obsession, Geoff Cheong , single work essay (p. 238-252)
Ontopoetics in Australia, Freya Mathews , single work essay (p. 253-270)
Performance Art, Ritual and Shamanism, Anne Marsh , single work essay (p. 271-286)
Sacred Icon : Jorn Utzon's Sydney Opera House, Peter Murphy , single work essay (p. 287-?)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Untitled Stephen Harris , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 48 no. 1 2012; (p. 110-111)

— Review of Sacred Australia : Post-Secular Considerations 2009 anthology essay criticism
Untitled Stephen Harris , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 48 no. 1 2012; (p. 110-111)

— Review of Sacred Australia : Post-Secular Considerations 2009 anthology essay criticism
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