Winner of the 2015 ASAL Walter McCrae Russell Award 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...
Winner of the 2015 ASAL Walter McCrae Russell Award Indigenous Australian cultures were long known to the world mainly from the writing of anth...