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'Anxiety and Aboriginality: The Intersubjectivities of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal (post) Reconciliation Australia.'
Anne Brewster, Lecturer School of English, UNSW
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This paper investigates the beach as a site of encounter/invasion, of hauntedness and of homecoming for the contemporary Aboriginal imaginary and for non-Aboriginal Australians. It discusses the impact of the 'ethnic fraud' cases of the past decade on Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal constituencies; the collapse of the efficacy of the notion of pan-Aboriginality in the 1990s; and the troubled identification of 'mainstream' Australians with Aboriginal representations of a diasporic nostalgia for 'home'. It will refer to the work of Aboriginal orators, writers, musicians and artists such as Mick Dodson, Gordon Bennett, Barbara Stammner, Alf Taylor, Lisa Bellear, Rosemary van den Berg and Jimmy Chi.
