Ar̲atjara: Aboriginal Culture and Literature in Australia
Dieter Riemenschneider, Geoffrey V. Davis
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.
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Contents
A ELISABETH STROHSCHEIDT
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9 |
A LIONEL G FOGARTY
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39 |
A LIONEL G FOGARTY
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53 |
A PHILLIP ΟNEILL
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69 |
A ADAM SHOEMAKER
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87 |
AEVA RASK KNUDSEN
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111 |
A ANNE BREWSTER
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121 |
AMAURIE SCOTT
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129 |
A LIONEL G FOGARTY
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145 |
A DIETER RIEMENSCHNEIDER
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175 |
A LIONEL G FOGARTY
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187 |
A ALAN MCKEE
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193 |
AKLAUS RIELÄNDER
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211 |
Moved Me
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223 |
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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231 |
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Aboriginal and Torres Aboriginal arts Aboriginal Australia Aboriginal communities Aboriginal culture Aboriginal Land Rights Aboriginal Studies Aboriginal theatre Aratjara areas audience Australian Aboriginal Australian Government Black Australian Bob Maza body-painting Bran Nue Dae bricolage Brisbane Broadcasting Bungaree Bungaree's CAAMA Canberra colonial colonists concept contemporary context dance David Mowaljarlai dreamtime earth English Ernabella European example Federal fiction genre Ghost Dreaming horror films important indigenous Jack Davis Jangamuttuk Kevin Gilbert Kimberley Koori Land Council Land Rights Act language Lionel Fogarty LISSONNET literary discourse literature living Mabo Malnic means mimicry Mudrooroo mythography narrative non-Aboriginal Northern Territory oral painting Pelican Laughed performance Platypus play political post-colonial present PY-MEDIA Queensland resistance Robert Tickner Sandawara semiotic settler sign-language signs social society songs spirit story Sydney television terra nullius theatrical Torres Strait Islander totemic traditional Aboriginal Wandjina Western Australia Woorredy writing Yorro Yorro