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Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures Of Talk, Text, And Modernity
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'Indigenous Australian cultures were long known to the world mainly from the writing of anthropologists, ethnographers, historians, missionaries, and others. Indigenous Australians themselves have worked across a range of genres to challenge and reconfigure this textual legacy, so that they are now strongly represented through their own life-narratives of identity, history, politics, and culture. Even as Indigenous-authored texts have opened up new horizons of engagement with Aboriginal knowledge and representation, however, the textual politics of some of these narratives - particularly when cross-culturally produced or edited - can remain haunted by colonially grounded assumptions about orality and literacy.
Through an examination of key moments in the theorizing of orality and literacy and key texts in cross-culturally produced Indigenous life-writing, Entangled Subjects explores how some of these works can sustain, rather than trouble, the frontier zone established by modernity in relation to 'talk' and 'text'. Yet contemporary Indigenous vernaculars offer radical new approaches to how we might move beyond the orality-literacy 'frontier', and how modernity and the a-modern are productively entangled in the process. ' (Source: Angus & Robertson website www.angusrobertson.com.au)
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Contents include:
- Introduction: When They Write What We Read
- Unsettling Subjects: Critical Perspectives on Selves in Writing and Writing Selves
- (Re)Writing Histories: The Emergence and Development of Indigenous Australian Life-Writing
- 'The Pencil and the Mouth': Anthropology, Orality, Literacy, and Modernity
- 'A Tape-Recorder and an Editor': The Politics and Practices of Cross-Cultural Collaborative Text-Making
- Crowded House: Gularabulu: Stories of the West Kimberley
- Troubling Relations: Nyibayarri: Kimberley Tracker, Ingelba and the Five Black Matriarchs, and The Sun Dancin'
- Fighting With Our Tongues, Fighting For Our Tongues: Warlpiri karnta karnta-kurlangu yimi/Warlpiri Women's Voices: Our Lives, Our History and Auntie Rita
- Conclusion: Reading the Word, Reading the World: Re-Reading Orality, Literacy, and Modernity
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thesis
The cultural and political practices of authorial and editorial collaboration in the Indigenous Australian life-writing genre have emerged as key sites in relation to the textual management and performance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous identity, authorship and authority in cross-cultural contexts. Various editorial, authorial and representational strategies brought to bear in these works offer insights and pose dilemmas, both theoretical and lived, about how European colonial oppositions of 'self' and 'other' have played out in the contexts of literacy and and its cultural 'others'. This thesis critiques both practices within and critical discourses on Indigenous Australian life-writing texts that variously reinforce, complicate or challenge 'talk' and 'text' as divided territories. It analyses how these domains intersect, and considers the implications of this for our understanding of how and why the terrain of cross-cultural, collaborative life writing has simultaneously been one of constraint and possibility for rethinking oralities, literacies and modernities in the present.
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[Review] Entangled Subjects: Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures of Talk, Text, and Modernity
2016
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review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 16 no. 1 2016;
— Review of Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures Of Talk, Text, And Modernity 2013 single work criticism -
[Review] Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-cultures of Talk, Text, and Modernity
2015
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— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 51 no. 3 2015; (p. 367-368)
— Review of Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures Of Talk, Text, And Modernity 2013 single work criticism -
[Review Essay] Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-cultures of Talk, Text and Modernity
2014
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— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2014; (p. 110-111)
— Review of Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures Of Talk, Text, And Modernity 2013 single work criticism'Entangled subjects: Indigenous/Australian cross cultures of talk, text and modernity by Michele Grossman is an exploration into the area of contemporary collaborative Australian Indigenous life writing. Grossman positions this research in the context of her cultural history, location and heritage as part of a HungarianJewish diaspora in New York. Because this has deeply informed her interpretative practices and, in her own words, ‘blind spots’, this self-reflexive approach has led her to question the norms that guide cultural desires, assumptions and expectations that Western readers bring to texts and their understanding and value of reading and writing more generally. The result is a critique of the conventional anthropological and literary binary between orality and literacy' (Introduction)
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[Review] Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures of Talk, Text, and Modernity
2013
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review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 6 no. 1 2013;
— Review of Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures Of Talk, Text, And Modernity 2013 single work criticism
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[Review] Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures of Talk, Text, and Modernity
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 6 no. 1 2013;
— Review of Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures Of Talk, Text, And Modernity 2013 single work criticism -
[Review Essay] Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-cultures of Talk, Text and Modernity
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2014; (p. 110-111)
— Review of Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures Of Talk, Text, And Modernity 2013 single work criticism'Entangled subjects: Indigenous/Australian cross cultures of talk, text and modernity by Michele Grossman is an exploration into the area of contemporary collaborative Australian Indigenous life writing. Grossman positions this research in the context of her cultural history, location and heritage as part of a HungarianJewish diaspora in New York. Because this has deeply informed her interpretative practices and, in her own words, ‘blind spots’, this self-reflexive approach has led her to question the norms that guide cultural desires, assumptions and expectations that Western readers bring to texts and their understanding and value of reading and writing more generally. The result is a critique of the conventional anthropological and literary binary between orality and literacy' (Introduction)
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[Review] Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-cultures of Talk, Text, and Modernity
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 51 no. 3 2015; (p. 367-368)
— Review of Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures Of Talk, Text, And Modernity 2013 single work criticism -
[Review] Entangled Subjects: Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures of Talk, Text, and Modernity
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 16 no. 1 2016;
— Review of Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures Of Talk, Text, And Modernity 2013 single work criticism
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