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Translations, an Autoethnography: Migration, Colonial Australia and the Creative Encounter
Hardback
Main Details
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Translations, an Autoethnography: Migration, Colonial Australia and the Creative Encounter
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Paul Carter
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Series | Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography |
Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:336 | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138 |
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Category/Genre | Australia, New Zealand & Pacific history Historical geography |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781526158048
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Classifications | Dewey:305.800994 |
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Audience | Tertiary Education (US: College) | Professional & Vocational | General | |
Illustrations |
2 Maps
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Manchester University Press
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Imprint |
Manchester University Press
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Publication Date |
21 December 2021 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Translations is an intimate and forthright autoethnography by noted postcolonial scholar, artist and writer, Paul Carter. It describes the highly original creative practice he has developed in Australia, inspired by an examination of early colonial records of cross-cultural encounter and refracted through the precarious host-stranger relationship navigated by contemporary migrants. Translations seeks to extract migration from the national margins and place it at the heart of contemporary struggles to decolonise social and cultural relations. His discussion of the mirroring myths that hold England and Australia in thrall to each other offers an uncanny insight into the psychology of Brexit. Carter shows that 'symbolic literacy', the capacity to mediate between geographically and culturally incommensurable realities, produces new subjects, new senses of belonging and a radically innovative approach to the recognition of Indigenous sovereignty
Author Biography
Paul Carter is Professor of Design (Urbanism) at RMIT University, Melbourne and author of The Road to Botany Bay -- .
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