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Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 'A Vision through the Smoky Haze' : Viewing Corroboree in Selected Australian Novels
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"Fiction portraying the experiences of Australian Indigenous people often contains depictions of the 'corroboree'. This representation commonly conveys a scenario in which Indigenous people dance while being watched by white spectators. This establishes a relationship between seeing and knowing that locates power in the hands of the white observers. Later in this century, both non-Indigenous, then more typically Indigenous authors, deconstruct the power structures at work in these portrayals." (31)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Studies vol. 20 no. 1&2 2005 Z1530518 2005 periodical issue 2005 pg. 31-54
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