Robert Clarke

Travel Writing from Black Australia (eBook, PDF)

Utopia, Melancholia, and Aboriginality

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Aboriginality has, in recent decades, been appropriated to furnish the Australian nation with a unique and identifiable tourist brand. This is deeply ironic given the realities of life for many Aboriginal people in Australian society. For many travel writers, this clash between different regimes of valuing Aboriginality is one of the great challenges to travellng in Australia. Concentrating on a period marked by the rise of discourses on Aboriginality championing indigenous empowerment, self-determination, and reconciliation, the author analyzes how travel to Black Australia has become a means of discovering 'new' and potentially transformative styles of interracial engagement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317914754
• Artikelnr.: 46759067

Autorenporträt

Robert Clarke teaches English studies in the School of Humanities, University of Tasmania, Australia. His research focuses on contemporary Australian fiction and travel writing. He is editor of Celebrity Colonialism: Fame, Power and Representation in Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures (2009) and The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Journeys to Another Country: Utopia, Melancholia, and
Aboriginality in Travel Writing 2. Exotic Travellers: Aboriginality in
Robyn Davidson's Tracks (1980) and Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines (1987) 3.
Free Spirits: Aboriginality and Australian New Age Travel Books 4. "Britz
Down Under": Race and Ordinary Australia 5. Journeys to Country: Sally
Morgan and Ruby Langford Ginibi "Return Home" 6. Dark Places: The Ghosts of
Terra Nullius Conclusion

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Introduction 1. Journeys to Another Country: Utopia, Melancholia, and Aboriginality in Travel Writing 2. Exotic Travellers: Aboriginality in Robyn Davidson's Tracks (1980) and Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines (1987) 3. Free Spirits: Aboriginality and Australian New Age Travel Books 4. "Britz Down Under": Race and Ordinary Australia 5. Journeys to Country: Sally Morgan and Ruby Langford Ginibi "Return Home" 6. Dark Places: The Ghosts of Terra Nullius Conclusion

Rezensionen

"This is an indispensable book to contemporary travel writing featuring Australia. Robert Clarke makes the case that Aboriginality is central to writing about travel and is indeed central to Australian identity past and future." - Simon Ryan, Australian Catholic University, Australia

"Travel writers have long used Aboriginal Australia as a test case in how to make sense of otherness: their responses may be predictable, but Robert Clarke's illuminating investigation of their work is full of surprises." - Richard White, University of Sydney, Australia

"This is an indispensable book to contemporary travel writing featuring Australia. Robert Clarke makes the case that Aboriginality is central to writing about travel and is indeed central to Australian identity past and future." - Simon Ryan, Australian Catholic University, Australia

"Travel writers have long used Aboriginal Australia as a test case in how to make sense of otherness: their responses may be predictable, but Robert Clarke's illuminating investigation of their work is full of surprises." - Richard White, University of Sydney, Australia