Aboriginal-White conflict
Articles
- Colonial Violence and Forgotten Fiction
The focus of this essay is ‘on excavating short fiction built around representation of frontier conflict’ (33). The short fictions of colonial frontier violence ‘seem…
1 June 2009 - The Telling of Marmel’s Story
The essay discusses Brimming Billabongs, ‘the first Aboriginal “autobiography”, albeit simulated, but also the first fictional narrative to rely upon an Aboriginal character as…
1 June 2009 - Biopolitical Correspondences: Settler Nationalism, Thanatopolitics, and the Perils of Hybridity
‘How does (post)colonial literary culture, so often annexed to nationalist concerns, interface with what Michel Foucault called biopolitics? Biopolitics can be defined as the regularisation…
1 June 2011 - Racism, the Realist Writers’ Movement and the Katharine Susannah Prichard Award
In their works on literary politics in postwar Australia, Susan McKernan (later Lever) and John McLaren mention the comparatively little known role played by the…
1 October 1999 - Jimmy Governor and Jimmie Blacksmith
Historian Henry Reynolds examines the historical background of and model for Keneally’s novel and focuses on four things: “to outline the general background to race…
1 May 1979 - Oodgeroo: A Pioneer in Aboriginal Education
"White people want to do something about Aborigines, but they don't know how to go about it," said Kath Walker (Oodgeroo) to reporter Jim Hall…
1 November 1994