[csaa-forum] New Book on Memory and Aboriginality

[John Gunders]

FYI. Apologies for cross-posting.

Forgetting Aborigines, Chris Healy, UNSW Press, 2008.

Forgetting Aborigines explores a central paradox in Australian history:
Aborigines are often remembered as absent in the face of a continuing
and actual indigenous historical presence. Chris Healy argues that in
the ways we remember our history, Aborigines keep disappearing. They are
present and central at certain moments but then fade from memory.
Aboriginal issues can be on the front page for weeks prompting white
Australians to ask questions like 'why weren't we told?' and then recede
again. The book examines ways in which we can stop this dishonest and
destructive cycle.

Chris Healy explores the entanglements that emerge from various
encounters between white and indigenous people since the 1960s. The book
draws on the extraordinary cultural production emerging from the domain
of Aboriginality in painting, film, photography, exhibition,
performance, poetry, fiction and much more. Alongside key political and
social landmarks of the past 40 years, Forgetting Aborigines makes
personal, reflective and intellectual
observations about the ways in which we remember and forget and how we
might make Aboriginality meaningful and visible in Australia.

About the Author
Dr Chris Healy teaches cultural studies at the University of Melbourne.
His publications include Beasts of Suburbia (co-ed.), From the Ruins of
Colonialism, Cultural Studies Review (co-ed. 2002-2006) and South
Pacific Museums (co-ed.).

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