ARATJARA is the first collection of essays on Australian Aboriginal culture published and edited from Germany. A group of internationally renowned scholars and specialists in their fields have contributed original essays on political and cultural aspects of Aboriginal life today. These various essays treat the struggle of Aboriginal peoples for land rights, their music, and their achievements in theatre, in literature and in the creation of Aboriginal literary discourses, as well as Aboriginal film and television productions and the representation of Australia's indigenous peoples in the white media. Among Aboriginal writers who have contributed to ARATJARA are the politician Neville T. Bonner, the dramatist Bob Maza, the story-teller David Mowaljarlai and the poet Lionel Fogarty, who has been called the most authentic Aboriginal voice among writers using English as their medium of creative expression. The volume is dedicated to Oodgeroo (formerly Kath Walker, 1920-1993), one of the foremost Aboriginal political and cultural personalities, and also contains a number of poems by Lionel Fogarty.
Contents: Illustrations. Dieter RIEMENSCHNEIDER: Preface. Geoffrey V. DAVIS: Introduction and Acknowledgements. Neville T. BONNER: "Aratjara": Opening Address. Elisabeth STROHSCHEIDT: Land Rights for the First Australians. A Long Way Still to Go. Lionel G. FOGARTY: A Vera Take a Ride. David MOWALJARLAI & Jutta MALNIC: "Yorro Yorro" everything standing up alive: Spirit of the Kimberley. Lionel G. FOGARTY: Joowindoo Goonduhmu; Quick Sing (Translation). Benno WAGNER: "We Know All About the Past...". From Mythology to Mythography in Aboriginal Australia. Phillip O'NEILL: Putting the English in Drag. Bungaree's Theatre of Mimicry as a Response to Colonialism. Adam SHOEMAKER: Mudrooroo. Australia's Most International Author? Eckhard BREITINGER: Clio and Calliope. Documentation and Narration in "Third-World" Historical Writing. Lionel G. FOGARTY: Dreamtime. Eva RASK KNUDSEN: Clocktime and Dreamtime. A Reading of Mudrooroo's Master of the Ghost Dreaming. Anne BREWSTER: Aboriginal Women's Autobiography. Alice Nannup's When the Pelican Laughed. Maurie SCOTT: Reinventing Cultures: The Politics of Cultural Reformation. As Reflected in Contemporary Aboriginal Performing Arts. Lionel G. FOGARTY: Scenic Wonders - We Nulla Fellas. Christopher BALME: Reading the Signs. A Semiotic Perspective on Aboriginal Theatre. Jean-Yves LISSONNET & Bob MAZA: Théâtre du Diamant Noir - Black Diamond Theatre. Dieter RIEMENSCHNEIDER: Aboriginal Literary Discourses and Australian Literature. Lionel G. FOGARTY: Free Our Dreams. Frances CALVERT: "Talking Broken". A Portrait of the Torres Strait Islanders. Alan McKEE: White Stories, Black Magic. Australian Horror Films of the Aboriginal. Klaus RIELÄNDER: The Right to Have TV. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Television in Australia. Lionel G. FOGARTY: Moved Me. Petra LEHMANN: The Music Culture and Music System of Aboriginal Australia.
Contents: Illustrations. Dieter RIEMENSCHNEIDER: Preface. Geoffrey V. DAVIS: Introduction and Acknowledgements. Neville T. BONNER: "Aratjara": Opening Address. Elisabeth STROHSCHEIDT: Land Rights for the First Australians. A Long Way Still to Go. Lionel G. FOGARTY: A Vera Take a Ride. David MOWALJARLAI & Jutta MALNIC: "Yorro Yorro" everything standing up alive: Spirit of the Kimberley. Lionel G. FOGARTY: Joowindoo Goonduhmu; Quick Sing (Translation). Benno WAGNER: "We Know All About the Past...". From Mythology to Mythography in Aboriginal Australia. Phillip O'NEILL: Putting the English in Drag. Bungaree's Theatre of Mimicry as a Response to Colonialism. Adam SHOEMAKER: Mudrooroo. Australia's Most International Author? Eckhard BREITINGER: Clio and Calliope. Documentation and Narration in "Third-World" Historical Writing. Lionel G. FOGARTY: Dreamtime. Eva RASK KNUDSEN: Clocktime and Dreamtime. A Reading of Mudrooroo's Master of the Ghost Dreaming. Anne BREWSTER: Aboriginal Women's Autobiography. Alice Nannup's When the Pelican Laughed. Maurie SCOTT: Reinventing Cultures: The Politics of Cultural Reformation. As Reflected in Contemporary Aboriginal Performing Arts. Lionel G. FOGARTY: Scenic Wonders - We Nulla Fellas. Christopher BALME: Reading the Signs. A Semiotic Perspective on Aboriginal Theatre. Jean-Yves LISSONNET & Bob MAZA: Théâtre du Diamant Noir - Black Diamond Theatre. Dieter RIEMENSCHNEIDER: Aboriginal Literary Discourses and Australian Literature. Lionel G. FOGARTY: Free Our Dreams. Frances CALVERT: "Talking Broken". A Portrait of the Torres Strait Islanders. Alan McKEE: White Stories, Black Magic. Australian Horror Films of the Aboriginal. Klaus RIELÄNDER: The Right to Have TV. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Television in Australia. Lionel G. FOGARTY: Moved Me. Petra LEHMANN: The Music Culture and Music System of Aboriginal Australia.