The aboriginal intervention in colonial discourse: challenging white control of cross-racial intersubjectivity
Written against the background of critical whiteness studies, the article deals with the poetry of Romaine Moreton and Alf Taylor, two contemporary Aboriginal voices who are not yet widely recognised, although their work is powerful and compelling. They both use their medium to explore various as...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2018
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13580/1/19326-69255-1-PB.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13580/ http://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1073 |
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| Summary: | Written against the background of critical whiteness studies, the article deals with the poetry
of Romaine Moreton and Alf Taylor, two contemporary Aboriginal voices who are not yet
widely recognised, although their work is powerful and compelling. They both use their
medium to explore various aspects of indigeneity and to intervene in the public dynamics of
racial separation. In their attempt to instil agency for the postcolonial Indigenous subject,
they challenge what Sara Suleri (2003) calls “the static lines of demarcation” between
colonial power and disempowered culture – the assumptions about such binary oppositions as
domination and subordination, centre and margin, self and other, upon which the logic of
coloniality often stands. In convening a cross-racial public, the rhetoric of the two poets’
critique generates a discursive guilt in non-Indigenous readers and foregrounds the need for
the intersubjectivity of race; that is, a zone of mutual respect and cooperation between
Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. |
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