Author: Carolyn CoilPublisher: Pieces of Learning
ISBN: 1880505169
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
An interdisciplinary activities program to supplement the study of Australia.
Eye on Australia
Author: Carolyn CoilPublisher: Pieces of Learning
ISBN: 1880505169
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
An interdisciplinary activities program to supplement the study of Australia.
The Postcolonial Eye
Author: Dr Alison RavenscroftPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409479188
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Informed by theories of the visual, knowledge and desire, The Postcolonial Eye is about the 'eye' and the 'I' in contemporary Australian scenes of race. Specifically, it is about seeing, where vision is taken to be subjective and shaped by desire, and about knowing one another across the cultural divide between white and Indigenous Australia. Writing against current moves to erase this divide and to obscure difference, Alison Ravenscroft stresses that modern Indigenous cultures can be profoundly, even bewilderingly, strange and at times unknowable within the terms of 'white' cultural forms. She argues for a different ethics of looking, in particular, for aesthetic practices that allow Indigenous cultural products, especially in the literary arts, to retain their strangeness in the eyes of a white subject. The specificity of her subject matter allows Ravenscroft to deal with the broad issues of postcolonial theory and race and ethnicity without generalising. This specificity is made visible in, for example, Ravenscroft's treatment of the figuring of white desire in Aboriginal fiction, film and life-stories, and in her treatment of contemporary Indigenous cultural practices. While it is located in Australian Studies, Ravenscroft's book, in its rigorous interrogation of the dynamics of race and whiteness and engagement with European and American literature and criticism, has far-reaching implications for understanding the important question of race and vision.
Eye on Australia
Author: Michael RuetzPublisher: Angus & Robertson
ISBN: 9780207155178
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
The Cartographic Eye
Author: Simon RyanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521577915
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Cartographic Eye is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. An innovative investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics and politics of Australian explorers' texts, it concentrates on the period 1820-1880. Simon Ryan looks at the journals of John Oxley, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Sturt and Ludwig Leichhardt and shows that they are not the simple, unadorned observations the authors would have us believe, but are complex networks of tropes. The Cartographic Eye scrutinises and undermines the scientific and literary methodology of exploration. Its insightful analysis of the tendencies of colonialism will make a major contribution to 'new historicist' interrogations of colonialism. It will be a crucial text for readers in Australian literary and cultural studies, and for those interested in colonial discourse and postcolonial theory.
Eye on Australia
Author: Michael RuetzPublisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 9780771078699
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Pete Boone, Private Eye (Australia's Worst Private Detective)
Author: David MURDOCHPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847530982
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Australia's Worst Private Detective and his first year on the job!Selected from the original short stories of the 1980s which became the hit cult comedy of national community television of the 2000s! Arguably the funniest and most creative and original series ever on Australian television, read where it all began...Pete Boone is a young man in his early twenties (too young for a life of crime?). From the Western Suburbs, his dream is to be a 'real' private detective... You know, the ones featured in novels, on the movie screen, on television... Up the corridor is his 'enemy' in crime, Dirk Lombarde. A detective who's sleazy, clean cut, and successful... Everything opposite to Pete Boone! Pennant Falls Police Station, under the very patient Constable O'Flynn, puts up with his antics - sometimes only because by staying close to Pete Boone the criminal comes to light... Oh yes... Another important fact about Pete Boone is that HE NEVER CORRECTLY SOLVES A CASE!
The Mechanical Eye in Australia
Author: Alan DaviesPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Eye on Australia
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Author: Jane LydonPublisher: Duke University Press Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
DIVA historical ethnography of photographs as a colonial tool and as reappropriated by the indigenous population from the 1860s through the 1920s and in the present./div
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