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This book examines the broader impacts on Australian culture and cultural practice of the Australian High Court's landmark Mabo decision of 1992. It considers how history, linguistics and anthropology as well as film, fiction, poetry and memoir writing have been challenged or transformed by Mabo.
List of contents
Acknowledgements; Introduction, Geoff Rodoreda and Eva Bischoff; PART I. MAKING HISTORY; Chapter 1. Activism before Mabo: A View from the Southeast, Lynette Russell and Rachel Standfield; Chapter 2. Remembering Koiki and Bonita Mabo, Pioneers of Indigenous Education, Paul Turnbull; PART II. MABO IN POLITICS AND PRACTICE; Chapter 3. Responsibility = Ownership? An Ethnographic Moment in Native Title, Carsten Wergin; Chapter 4. The Contributions of Linguistics to Native Title Claims, Christina Ringel; PART III. MABO AND FILM; Chapter 5. Australian Indigenous Filmmaking Beyond Mabo: The Emergence of Indigenous Australian Visual Sovereignty, Romaine Moreton and Therese Davis; Chapter 6. Filmic Representations of Eddie Mabo in a Changing Cultural Imaginary, Renate Brosch; Chapter 7. Torres Strait Screen Media 'Post- Mabo': Between Representation and Institution, Peter Kilroy; PART IV. FICTION AND POETRY; Chapter 8. Melissa Lucashenko's Mullumbimby: The FemaleBody as the Locus of Knowing and Tradition, Philip Morrissey; Chapter 9. Writing the Land, Writing Relations: Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance, Dorothee Klein; Chapter 10. Aboriginal Jurisprudence in Philip McLaren's Lightning Mine, Katrin Althans; Chapter 11. Rewriting History, Rewriting Identity: Terra Nullius in Australian Poetry after Mabo, Lioba Schreyer; PART V. MABO AND MEMOIR; Chapter 12. Are We Better Than This?: Stan Grant and the Post-Mabo Blues, Lars Jensen; Chapter 13. Beyond Native Title: Literary Justice in the Post-Mabo Memoir, Kieran Dolin; List of Contributors; Index.
About the author
Geoff Rodoreda is a lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Eva Bischoff is an assistant professor in the Department of International History at Trier University, Germany.
