Indigenous Cultural Capital

Postcolonial Narratives in Australian Children's Literature
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78707-077-6
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

Reihe: Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Winner of the Biennial Australian Studies in China Book Prize 2018 for an Original Work of Scholarship (in English)

This book explores how Australian Indigenous people’s histories and cultures are deployed, represented and transmitted in post-Mabo children’s literature authored by Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers. Postcolonial narratives in Australian children’s books enable readers access to Indigenous cultures, knowledge and history, which bring with them the possibility of acculturation. This process of acquisition emerges as an embodiment of cultural capital, as theorised by Pierre Bourdieu, but carries an alternative, anti-colonial force. This book argues that by affirming Indigenous cultural value and re-orienting the instituting power of recognition, the operation of 'Indigenous cultural capital' enacts a tactic of resistance and functions with transformative potential to change the way in which cultural relations are reproduced in settler society. Through examining the representation, formative processes, modes of transmission, and ethical deployment of Indigenous cultural capital, this book provides a fresh perspective on postcolonial readings of children’s literature. In doing so, it makes original contributions to literary criticism and significant theoretical advances to postcolonial scholarship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Xu, Daozhi

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brewster, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS: Indigenous Cultural Capital - Decolonised Landscape: Aboriginal Connection to Country - Living Memories and the Mechanism of Forgetting: Narratives of Indigenous Child Separation - Book Reviews, Prizes, and the Paratextual Space in Children’s Books - School Texts: From «Silent Apartheid» to «Cross-Curriculum Priority» - The Gift and the Ethics of Representing Aboriginality - Resistance and Transformation in a Project of Hope.

Über Autor(innen)

Xu Daozhi completed her PhD in English literary studies at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and is now a senior research assistant in the Faculty of Education at HKU. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, cultural theory, children’s literature, and studies of race and ethnicity. Her scholarly articles have appeared in Australian Aboriginal Studies, Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, and Antipodes.