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[Review Essay] : The Postcolonial Eye : White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race
2015
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review
— Appears in: International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies , vol. 8 no. 2 2015; (p. 55-57)
— Review of The Postcolonial Eye : White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race 2012 single work criticism'The first chapter of Alison Ravenscroft’s The Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race begins with a description of a photograph, property of the South Australian Museum, series AA346. This photograph is one of thousands taken during the Board for Anthropological Research’s Harvard and Adelaide Universities’ 1938 expedition. In it, two Murri girls stare at us, one with a shaved head, the other wearing a card marked ‘N1474’. What we see in this photograph, the violence of colonial history, is striking, but equally (perhaps more) striking, Ravenscroft suggests, is what we fail to see. “Who were these girls and what happened to them after the camera closed its eye and the photographer turned away?” she asks (7). Although we can see signs of colonial subject formation—exemplified by the name ‘N1474’—no matter how closely we look, we cannot see the girls’ fate, nor the fate of the researcher behind the camera, the one “who looked upon an image from which he excluded himself but in which he was implicated nevertheless” (7). Furthermore, “How [are we] to bring such a scene into writing?” Ravenscroft asks, implicating herself (as well as us, as readers of cultural studies and co-viewers of this photograph) in the categorical violence perpetrated by the invisible photographer (7).' (Introduction)
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Questions of Uncertainty
2014
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review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , May no. 56 2014;
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2013
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— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 28 no. 3 2013; (p. 95-98)
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2013
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— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 7 no. 5 2013;
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Falling from View : Whiteness, Appropriation and the Complicities of Desire in The Postcolonial Eye
2012
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review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 12 no. 3 2012;
— Review of The Postcolonial Eye : White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race 2012 single work criticism
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Falling from View : Whiteness, Appropriation and the Complicities of Desire in The Postcolonial Eye
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 12 no. 3 2012;
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Review of The Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race
2012
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— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , vol. 27 no. 73 2012; (p. 333-334)
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Review of The Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race
2012
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review
— Appears in: The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , vol. 41 no. 2 2012; (p. 243-244)
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Another Way of Reading The Postcolonial Eye
2012
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criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 12 no. 3 2012;
— Review of The Postcolonial Eye : White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race 2012 single work criticism A reply to Anne Maxwell and Odette Kelada. -
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2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 7 no. 5 2013;
— Review of The Postcolonial Eye : White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race 2012 single work criticism