| Description |
xvi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cross/cultures ; 28 |
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Cross/cultures ; 28
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| Contents |
Preface / Dieter Riemenschneider -- Introduction and Acknowledgements / Geoffrey V. Davis -- "Aratjara": Opening Address / Neville T. Bonner -- Land Rights for the First Australians: A Long Way Still to Go / Elisabeth Strohscheidt -- A Vera Take a Ride / Lionel G. Fogarty -- "Yorro Yorro" everything standing up alive: Spirit of the Kimberley / David Mowaljarlai & Jutta Malnic -- Joowindoo Goonduhmu; Quick Sing (Translation) / Lionel G. Fogarty -- "We Know All About the Past...": From Mythology to Mythography in Aboriginal Australia / Benno Wagner -- Putting the English in Drag: Bungaree's Theatre of Mimicry as a Response to Colonialism / Phillip O'Neill -- Mudrooroo: Australia's Most International Author? / Adam Shoemaker -- Clio and Calliope: Documentation and Narration in "Third-World" Historical Writing / Eckhard Breitinger -- Dreamtime / Lionel G. Fogarty -- Clocktime and Dreamtime. A Reading of Mudrooroo's Master of the Ghost Dreaming / Eva Rask Knudsen -- Aboriginal Women's Autobiography: Alice Nannup's 'When the Pelican Laughed' / Anne Brewster -- Reinventing Cultures: The Politics of Cultural Reformation, As Reflected in Contemporary Aboriginal Performing Arts / Maurie Scott -- Scenic Wonders: We Nulla Fellas / Lionel G. Fogarty -- Reading the Signs. A Semiotic Perspective on Aboriginal Theatre / Christopher Balme -- Théâtre du Diamant Noir: Black Diamond Theatre / Jean-Yves Lissonnet & Bob Maza -- Aboriginal Literary Discourses and Australian Literature / Dieter Riemenschneider -- Free Our Dreams / Lionel G. Fogarty -- "Talking Broken". A Portrait of the Torres Strait Islanders / Frances Calvert -- White Stories, Black Magic: Australian Horror Films of the Aboriginal / Alan McKee -- The Right to Have TV: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Television in Australia / Klaus Rieländer -- Moved Me / Lionel G. Fogarty -- The Music Culture and Music System of Aboriginal Australia / Petra Lehmann |
| Summary |
"'Aratjara' is the first collection of essays on Australian Aboriginal culture published and edited from Germany. A group of internationally renowned scholars and specialists in their fields have contributed original essays on political and cultural aspects of Aboriginal life today. These various essays treat the struggle of Aboriginal peoples for land rights, their music, and their achievements in theatre, in literature and in the creation of Aboriginal literary discourses, as well as Aboriginal film and television productions and the representation of Australia's indigenous peoples in the white media. Among Aboriginal writers who have contributed to ARATJARA are the politician Neville T. Bonner, the dramatist Bob Maza, the story-teller David Mowaljarlai and the poet Lionel Fogarty, who has been called the most authentic Aboriginal voice among writers using English as their medium of creative expression. The volume is dedicated to Oodgeroo (formerly Kath Walker, 1920-1993), one of the foremost Aboriginal political and cultural personalities, and also contains a number of poems by Lionel Fogarty." -- Publisher's website |
| Notes |
Contains original contributions to the symposium "Aratjara: literature of the first Australians", held in Dusseldorf, 1993 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Intellectual life.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
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Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- History and criticism.
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Australian literature -- Aboriginal authors -- History and criticism
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Native title (Australia)
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| Author |
Davis, Geoffrey V., 1943-
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Riemenschneider, Dieter.
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Aratjara : literature of the first Australians [Symposium] (1993 : Dusselfdorf, Germany)
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| LC no. |
97157334 |
| ISBN |
9042001321 paper |
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9042001518 bound |
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9789042001329 paper |
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9789042001510 bound |
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