The Postcolonial Eye is about the 'eye' and the 'I' in the contemporary Australian scene of race, specifically the subjectivity of vision and the troubled project of knowing one another across the cultural divide between white and Indigenous Australia. Though located in Australian Studies, Ravenscroft's book, in its interrogation of race and whiteness and engagement with European and American literature and criticism, has far-reaching implications for understanding the important question of race and vision.
The Postcolonial Eye is about the 'eye' and the 'I' in the contemporary Australian scene of race, specifically the subjectivity of vision and the troubled project of knowing one another across the cultural divide between white and Indigenous Australia. Though located in Australian Studies, Ravenscroft's book, in its interrogation of race and whiteness and engagement with European and American literature and criticism, has far-reaching implications for understanding the important question of race and vision.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Alison Ravenscroft is in the English Department in the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry at La Trobe University, Australia.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents: Introduction: scenes of race Part I 'There Is and Can Be No Brute Vision': The eye and the 'I'. Part II When the Other Disappears from My Line of Sight: Coming to matter: the grounds of our embodied difference What falls from view? On re-reading Plains of Promise Dreaming of others: Carpentaria and its critics A postcolonial uncanny. Part III The Image of My Own Desire: White men as hidden spectators White women looking on 'Matron always carried a small whip'. Part IV Whiteness and Its Veils: Darkness casts its light: Australian blackface Resisting a white spectator's enjoyment: Benang's aesthetics Bibliography Index.
Contents: Introduction: scenes of race Part I 'There Is and Can Be No Brute Vision': The eye and the 'I'. Part II When the Other Disappears from My Line of Sight: Coming to matter: the grounds of our embodied difference What falls from view? On re-reading Plains of Promise Dreaming of others: Carpentaria and its critics A postcolonial uncanny. Part III The Image of My Own Desire: White men as hidden spectators White women looking on 'Matron always carried a small whip'. Part IV Whiteness and Its Veils: Darkness casts its light: Australian blackface Resisting a white spectator's enjoyment: Benang's aesthetics Bibliography Index.
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