Representing Aboriginal Childhood - The Politics of Memory and Forgetting in Australia

Engaging with representations in literature, film, governmental discourse, and news and infotainment media, this book investigates the ways in which Aboriginal children figure in Australia's cultural life, to mediate Australians' ambivalence about the colonial origins of the nation, as well as its possible post-colonial future.

List of contents

1.Introduction 2.Gumnut Babies and 'Babes in the Wood': The Nativised White Child 3.Amnesiac Recollections: The Found White Child 4.The Romance of Reconciliation: The Mixed-Race Aboriginal Child 5.'Breeding Out the Colour' in GevaColor: Jedda 6.Finding 'Home' Through the Child: Bringing Them Home and Assimilationism's Present 7.En-Gendering Failure: Sexualised Girls, Criminalised Boys, Through the Colonial Apparatus 8.Representing Invisibility: The Indigenous Child as Subaltern 9.Conclusion: Impasse or Emergence? The Unrepresentability of the Aboriginal Child

About the author

Joanne Faulkner is Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Cultural Studies in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie University, Australia.

Summary

Engaging with representations in literature, film, governmental discourse, and news and infotainment media, this book investigates the ways in which Aboriginal children figure in Australia’s cultural life, to mediate Australians’ ambivalence about the colonial origins of the nation, as well as its possible post-colonial future.

Product details

• Authors: Joanne Faulkner
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9780367568535
• ISBN: 978-0-367-56853-5
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, Popular Culture, Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, Sociology: family & relationships, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Age groups: children, Sociology: family and relationships, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Relating to First Nations peoples in Australia