Indigenous history and culture
Articles
- Review of White Apology and Apologia: Australian Novels of Reconciliation by Liliana Zavaglia
From at least the early 1990s, when the Hawke Labor Government introduced reconciliation legislation into the Australian parliament the concept of reconciliation has attracted criticism…
28 April 2020 - Shifting Timescapes and the Significance of the Mine in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
This article proposes a reading of Alexis Wright’s epic novel Carpentaria that focuses on the mine and its impacts as central to any understanding of…
29 October 2020 - Connecting Guatemala, Australia and the World: Violence in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Senselessness and Mark McKenna’s Looking for Blackfellas’ Point
This article uses Lacanian psychoanalysis to look past the enormous contextual differences between the politically-motivated mass murders and consequent genocide of the Maya in Guatemala…
29 October 2020 - Review of The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver have accomplished an impressive feat of scholarship in collecting and curating a record of settler interaction with the kangaroo from…
30 April 2021 - Defining the Field of Irish-Australian Literature: Challenges and Conundrums
What constitutes Irish-Australian literature – if such a category exists – is by no means clear. This essay seeks to map the field and identify…
30 September 2021