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Of Dragons And Devils: Chinese-Australian Life Stories, Wenche Ommundsen
Of Dragons And Devils: Chinese-Australian Life Stories, Wenche Ommundsen
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This article is about Chinese-Australian life stories.
Collaboration And Resistance In Indigenous Life Writing, Michael Jacklin
Collaboration And Resistance In Indigenous Life Writing, Michael Jacklin
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Collaboration is marked by indeterminacy. It is, by nature, intermediary, interposing, intervening. In Australia, collaboration between Aboriginal and invader/settler subjects in the unfolding of colonial engagement is a topic that has received limited scholarly attention. Some studies have dealt with native police and Black trackers; others have examined local negotiations of power and discourse; but the only broad survey of collaboration is Henry Reynolds's With the White People (1990). In this work Reynolds traces the varied modes of collaboration existing between the Aborigines and the European colonists of Australia from first contact and early settlement through ro the First World …