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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Darkness Subverted : Aboriginal Gothic in Black Australian Literature and Film
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Goettingen,
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Germany,
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Western Europe, Europe,:Bonn University Press , 2010 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Introduction : Resistance to the Un-Australian, Katrin Althans , single work criticism
'The Australian mind seems to be obsessed with the invocation of its 'un-national' apart from newspaper headlines, advertisements on television, or in signs tacked to lamp-posts in suburban Sydney, even the Macquarie Dictionary shows a preoccupation with the 'un-Australian'. Having introduced the lemma only as recently as 2001 in their Federation edition, the lexicographers already updated it in the subsequent 2005 edition by adding a fourth entry to account for the increased use of the word in the popular domain:' violating a pattern of conduct, behaviour, etc., which, it is implied by the user of the term, is one embraced by Australians'. Despite this zeal for determining the' un-national', little attention has been paid to its positive counterpart, thus making it easier to exclude people on grounds of their 'un-Australianness' than to welcome a national diversity.' (Author's introduction)
 (p. 1-10)
Aboriginal Gothic, Katrin Althans , single work criticism
In this essay, Althans ‘treats the Gothic as being a mode which continues to endow genres with a certain set of menacing stock elements and unstable characteristics of which the interrogation of boundaries, binaries, and identity are particularly useful in an Aboriginal Australian context’. (p.11-12)
 (p. 11-29)
Re-Biting the Canon : Mudrooroo's Vampire Trilogy, Katrin Althans , single work criticism (p. 32-88)
De-Composing the Epic : Sam Watson's The Kadaitcha Sung, Katrin Althans , single work criticism
Althan's analysis of Sam Watson's The Kadaitcha Sung shows that the 'hybridity identified in the amalgamation of the profane and the sacred takes a turn for the darker and joins different aspects of white and black Australia in a Gothic critique of colonialism and its consequences'. (p89-90)
 (p. 89-102)
Un-Singing Historiography : Kim Scott's Benang, Katrin Althans , single work criticism (p. 103-115)
Con-Juring the Phantom : Spectral Memories, Katrin Althans , single work criticism (p. 116-146)
Trans-Muting Cinema : Tracey Moffatt's Films, Katrin Althans , single work criticism
In this essay, Althans analyses two of Tracey Moffatt's films: Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1989) and BeDevil (1993).
 (p. 147-182)
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