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y separately published work icon Entangled Subjects: Talk and Text in Collaborative Indigenous Australian Life Writing single work   thesis  
Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Entangled Subjects: Talk and Text in Collaborative Indigenous Australian Life Writing
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The cultural and political practices of authorial and editorial collaboration in the Indigenous Australian life-writing genre have emerged as key sites in relation to the textual management and performance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous identity, authorship and authority in cross-cultural contexts. Various editorial, authorial and representational strategies brought to bear in these works offer insights and pose dilemmas, both theoretical and lived, about how European colonial oppositions of 'self' and 'other' have played out in the contexts of literacy and and its cultural 'others'. This thesis critiques both practices within and critical discourses on Indigenous Australian life-writing texts that variously reinforce, complicate or challenge 'talk' and 'text' as divided territories. It analyses how these domains intersect, and considers the implications of this for our understanding of how and why the terrain of cross-cultural, collaborative life writing has simultaneously been one of constraint and possibility for rethinking oralities, literacies and modernities in the present.

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  • PhD thesis, Department of English, Monash University, 2004.

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      Melbourne, Victoria,: 2004 .
      Extent: 360p.
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y separately published work icon Entangled Subjects : Indigenous/Australian Cross-Cultures Of Talk, Text, And Modernity Michèle Grossman , Netherlands : Rodopi , 2013 Z1938856 2013 single work criticism

'Indigenous Australian cultures were long known to the world mainly from the writing of anthropologists, ethnographers, historians, missionaries, and others. Indigenous Australians themselves have worked across a range of genres to challenge and reconfigure this textual legacy, so that they are now strongly represented through their own life-narratives of identity, history, politics, and culture. Even as Indigenous-authored texts have opened up new horizons of engagement with Aboriginal knowledge and representation, however, the textual politics of some of these narratives - particularly when cross-culturally produced or edited - can remain haunted by colonially grounded assumptions about orality and literacy.

Through an examination of key moments in the theorizing of orality and literacy and key texts in cross-culturally produced Indigenous life-writing, Entangled Subjects explores how some of these works can sustain, rather than trouble, the frontier zone established by modernity in relation to 'talk' and 'text'. Yet contemporary Indigenous vernaculars offer radical new approaches to how we might move beyond the orality-literacy 'frontier', and how modernity and the a-modern are productively entangled in the process. ' (Source: Angus & Robertson website www.angusrobertson.com.au)
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