Altitude: An e-journal of emerging humanities work
Altitude: An e-journal of emerging humanities work, Volume 6, 2005: Reading Australian Indigenous Texts 2
Edited by Anne Brewster
This issue completes the collection of essays on Indigenous cultural production introduced in the previous issue. It features a number of discussions of storytelling focussing, in the case of Somerville and Perkins, on the collaborative practice of storytelling exchange in a massacre story. Van den Berg looks at the functions of story-telling in indigenous communities and Ravell looks at the Moore River experience in life stories by van den Berg and Pilkington. Fielder examines Kim Scott’s fiction and collaborative life story work and Miller reads Unaipon’s life and literary work in the context of mimicry and whiteness. Webb and Mackinlay read the performance of song in urban and rural environments.
Articles:
John Fielder, Country and Connections: An Overview of the Writing of Kim Scott: PDF
Rosemary van den Berg, Aboriginal Storytelling and Writing: PDF
Ben Miller, Confusing Epistemologies: Whiteness, Mimicry and Assimilation in David Unaipon’s ‘Confusion of Tongue’: PDF
Elizabeth Mackinlay, ‘For our mother’s song we sing’: Yanyuwa Aboriginal women’s narratives of experience, memory and emotion: PDF
Julia Ravell, A Place in the Past: Pilkington and van den Berg on the Moore River Settlement: PDF
Hugh Webb, Say Goodbye to the Colonial Bogeyman: Aboriginal Strategies of Resistance: PDF
Margaret Somerville, (Re)membering in the Contact Zone: Telling, and Listening to, a Massacre Story: PDF
Altitude: An e-journal of emerging humanities work, Volume 5, 2005: Reading Indigenous Australian Texts 1
Edited by Anne Brewster
Indigenous people continue to make a very visible contribution to the production of the arts in Australia. Indigenous texts, which convene a non-indigenous audience (in addition to indigenous audiences), perform crucial work in brokering new configurations of intersubjectivity. These essays, which span two editions of Altitude, mount close readings of indigenous literature and song, ranging over the genres of life story, poetry, the novel, drama, country and western and traditional song. They extend our understanding of the significance and transformation of these genres and their impact on a range of difference audiences.
Articles:
Jennifer Jones, As Long as She Got Her Voice: How Cross-Cultural Collaboration Shapes Aboriginal Textuality: PDF
Angeline O’Neill, Navigating through time in Bulmurn, a Swan River Nyoongar: PDF
Penny van Toorn, Re-historicising ‘Racism’: Language, History and Healing in Wayne King’s ‘Black Hours’: PDF
Anne Brewster, Fractured conversations: indigenous literature and white readers. A reading of the poetry of Lisa Bellear: PDF
Altitude: An -e-journal of emerging humanities work, Volume 4, 2004: Justice and the Global
Edited by Robyn Tucker and Emily Potter
This edition of Altitude seeks, in a small way, to explore new and circulating ideas of justice and the global. The terms ‘justice’ and the ‘global’ are themselves variable in meaning, and so we consider the work presented here as opening up complex questions: the machinations of neo-liberal politics and the collectivisation of ‘global’ experience as a fall-out of September 11; the unpredictable and potentially political nature of the global commodity, that slips between corporate and more humanitarian discourses; and the implications of ‘global’ discourses of genocide, particularly in relation to the question of ethics. From the relation between justice and globalisation, to the purchase of human rights in light of the ‘war on terror’ and dominant discourses of reconciliation and cultural genocide in Australia today, this brief is expansive and, as the articles in this edition suggest, inconclusive – a reason to keep on thinking and questioning.
Articles:
Christine Nicholls, Postmodernity and September 11 2001 – Life Imitating Art? Art pre-empting Life? An Australian Perspective: PDF
Susie Khamis, Mambo Justice: An Unnatural Alliance?: PDF
Patrick Allington, Playing devil’s advocate: reflecting on Samantha Power’s ‘A Problem From Hell’: America and the Age of Genocide: PDF
Reviews:
Jim Ife, Review of Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil Engelhart, Andrew Nathan and Kavita Philip, Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalisation, M.E Sharpe, NY, 2003: here
Barry Judd, Review of Bartholomew Dean and Jerome Levi (eds), At the Risk of Being Heard: Identity, Indigenous Rights and Postcolonial States, University of Michigan Press May, 2003: here
