Textual Spaces: Aboriginality and Cultural Studies

Examines the Aboriginal and European construction of meaning through modes of discourse and their textual forms. 

Includes discourse analysis - anthropological (Berndt), romantic (Bates) and racist (Durack); physicality of text - bodily inscription, narrative (Paddy Roe), performance and memory; problem of authentic history - the story of Pigeon; structuralist and post-structuralist analysis of narrative - custodianship, history, Dreaming, speaking text; Aboriginal literature as political expression - criticism of repression/liberation dualism (Sally Morgan); legal and Aboriginal English; work of Rover Thomas, Sally Morgan and Jimmy Pike and versions of landscape; concepts of pan-Aboriginality (Yothu Yindi) and marginality in the post-modern.