| Reference Type |
book
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| Title |
Ab/originality or Aboriginated? The politics of essentialism, identity and self representation. |
| Author(s) | Darlene Johnson |
| Publication Date |
00-00-1993 |
| Comments |
Presents an extremely artciulate and detailed analysis of colonial and anti-colonial representational stategies. An ideal resourse for anyone interested in representations of intra-cultural difference in relation to representations of Aboriginality in the Australian cinema. In her final chapter, Johnson provides a valuable analysis of Tracy Moffat's Night Cries. Johnson successfully applies the theories she discusses in earlier chapters to the anti-colonial signifying practices at work in Moffat's film.
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| Synopsis |
Darlene Johnson provides a critique of the essentialist paradigms implicit in colonial representations of Aboriginality in Australian cultural production. Emphasising the constructed nature of Aboriginal identites, Johnson discusses anti-colonial strategies which attempt to subvert racist representations of Indigenous Australia. Referring to the cultural politics of difference, Johnson expresses the need for diverse representations of Aboriginality based on class, gender, race, age, sexual preference etc. On a much more theoretical level, Johnson applies Foucault's work on the technologies of the self to rethink debates pertaining to Aboriginal subjects and identity strategies.
Johnson's discussion of the cultural politics of Night Cries - A Rural Tragedy examines the appropriation of anti- colonial strategies of Indigenous representation.
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