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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Miracle Baby : A Reparative Reading of Mixed Race Identity and Nation in Peaches
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'The mixed race subject is increasingly emerging in popular Australian media as a poster child of multiculturalism, entangled with post-racial discourses. This dominant representation perpetuates reductive understandings of mixed race experience rooted in compulsory optimism and the erasure of history, which in turn bolster exclusionary imaginings of Australian national identity. I seek alternatives to these constructions through an analysis of the 2004 Australian film Peaches, a markedly understudied text, which centres the coming of age of mixed race protagonist Steph. I adopt Eve Sedgwick’s ‘reparative reading’ approach, which enables generative modes of analysis that seek to imagine new alternatives through textual critique. I focus on two key filmic sites – the ambivalent affects circulated by Steph, and the haunting queer temporality pervading the narrative. I argue that these two sites hold the potential for complex, open-ended understandings of mixed race identity, and in turn, modes of national identity that can re-centre unresolved histories and contested dynamics of race in Australia.' (Production abstract)

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230-241 Miracle Baby : A Reparative Reading of Mixed Race Identity and Nation in Peachessmall AustLit logo Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies
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  • Peaches Sue Smith , 2005 single work film/TV
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