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Translations, an Autoethnography: Migration, Colonial Australia and the Creative Encounter

Hardback

Main Details

Title Translations, an Autoethnography: Migration, Colonial Australia and the Creative Encounter
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Paul Carter
SeriesAnthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:336
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreAustralia, New Zealand & Pacific history
Historical geography
ISBN/Barcode 9781526158048
ClassificationsDewey:305.800994
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
General
Illustrations 2 Maps

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 21 December 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

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 -- .