Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation - Softcover
In Uncanny Australia Gelder and Jacobs show how Aboriginal claims for sacredness radiate out to affect the modern nation. They look at Coronation Hill, Hindmarsh Island, Uluru and the repatriation of sacred objects; they examine secret business in public places, promiscuous sacred sites, ghosts and bunyips, cartographic nostalgia, reconciliation and democracy, postcolonial racism and New Age enchantments.
Uncanny Australia is a challenging and thought-provoking work that offers a new way of understanding how the sacred haunts the modern through the effect of the uncanny.
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Ken Gelder teaches English and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. His previous books include Atomic Fiction: The Novels of David Ireland (1993) and Reading the Vampire (1994). Jane M. Jacobs teaches Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City (1996).
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'A terrific book . . . a very original and stimulating depiction of the way Australians are coming to terms with the indigenous challenge.' -- Dr Tim Rowse, University of Sydney
'An excellent contribution to current discussions of the place of Aboriginality in the life of the Australian nation . . . I find its central arguments innovative, thoughtful and fundamentally right.' -- Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty, South Asian Languages and Civilisations, University of Chicago
'An excellent contribution to current discussions of the place of Aboriginality in the life of the Australian nation . . . I find its central arguments innovative, thoughtful and fundamentally right.' -- Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty, South Asian Languages and Civilisations, University of Chicago
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- PublisherMelbourne University Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0522848168
- ISBN 13 9780522848168
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages184
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Book Description Softcover (Illustrated). Condition: Very Good. Inscribed by Author. Acknowledgements, Introduction: on Discourses of the Sacred, Minorities and Fair Deals, notes, bibliography and index. The text is illustrated with two figures within the text. Illustrated paperback binding with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and lavender and black coloured titles to the back strip. Quoting from the rear panel " . Aboriginal claims for sacredness in modern Australia may seem like minor events, but they have radically disturbed the nation's image of itself. Minorities appear to have too much influence; majorities suddenly feel embattled. What once seemed familiar can now seem disconcertingly unfamiliar, a condition Ken Gelder and Jane M. Jacobs diagnose as ''uncanny''. In Uncanny Australia Gelder and Jacobs show how Aboriginal claims for sacredness radiate out to affect the fortunes, and misfortunes, of the modern nation." The book has been inscribed to the previous owner by both authors  please see photograph. Minor rubbing of the book edges with likewise minor creasing of the book corners. Some sunning of the rear panel and back strip. A couple of handling marks to the text block edges with previous owners name to the top edge of the half title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], IX - XVII, [1], 163, [1] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Indigenous Cultures; Australia; 1990s; History. Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 0522848168. ISBN/EAN: 9780522848168. Inventory No: 0286793. Seller Inventory # 0286793
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