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1 y separately published work icon Spaces of Literary Wor(l)ds and Reality : Interpretation and Reception of Aboriginal Literature Teresa Podemska-Abt , Adelaide : 2012 6338625 2012 single work thesis

The thesis interprets Aboriginal literature and traces its workings on the outside-culture reader. By means of a pluralist approach to Indigenous works, it investigates ways in which Indigenous literary reality projects itself to readers. Read through the archetypal, epiphanic, realistic, native, phenomenological, open work, aesthetic paradigms, and understood as a force through which authors and readers express the world, Indigenous work loses some of its local attributes, acquiring nation-like imagery. Identifying the main characteristics of works, comparable spaces of human and reading experiences where Indigenous work untangles its uniqueness or enters the global scene, the thesis defines Indigenous aesthetics. In its multidisciplinary span, transferring Aboriginal knowledge, it extends transcultural meanings of Indigenous work, research in critique and projections of the transcultural reader. (Publication abstract)
1 y separately published work icon The Spiral Travelled : An Exegesis with Accompanying Novel: The Diary of Jeremy Prior Allan Robins , Adelaide : 2007 Z1528483 2007 single work thesis 'Since colonisation, representations of Indigeneity in Australian children's literature have evolved from racist denigration to more respectful egalitarianism. Such representations however, are open to criticism on grounds of cultural appropriation and doubts about the ability of non-Indigenous writers to legitimately or adequately represent Indigeneity. Yet the failure to represent would erase Indigenous presence from non-Indigenous texts: a literary terra nullius. Within what contexts, then, might representations be legitimate, appropiate, and ethical? This thesis, therefore, comprises two Parts: 'The Diary of Jeremy Prior', a novel for older children; and 'The Spiral Travelled', an exegesis which explores the discursive formation of the novel's writing subject (in this case, the same person as the theoretical writing subject) and its effect on the novel's representations of indigeneity. The exegesis tells a story of the synthesis of a body of theory through a narrative comprising four generic 'strands': an allegorical fiction; aotobiographical interludes; academic endnotes; and footnoted commentary. The fictional strand's two structural principles - the association of knowledge with place, and the model of the spiral - guide two characters (representing aspects of the author's subjectivity) on their quest for tools with which to analyse the representational practices of the novel.' (Libraries Australia record)
1 y separately published work icon Thebarton : Barbara Hanrahan's Sense of Place Diana Chessell , Underdale : University of South Australia , 1994 Z862990 1994 single work criticism
1 y separately published work icon Camcorders and the Politics of Video Culture Marking Territory Mat Schulz , s.l. : 1993 Z1399129 1993 single work thesis
1 y separately published work icon Australian Book Publishing Practices Represent and Construct What Counts as an Australian Literary Culture Ingrid Day , Adelaide : 1991 Z1307161 1991 single work thesis This cultural study of the Australian book publishing industry attempts to address questions about which literary books are published and publicised, and what counts as literary culture. The thesis offers a structural analysis of the Australian publishing industry, then addresses the role of the Australia Council and the implications of government patronage, literary awards and festivals, and regulatory practices such as copyright and censorship.
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