PART I: NARRATIVES
Introduction
The Question of Indigeneity
(Mis)recognising Indigeneity
The Legal Indigene
Performing Indigeneity
Unsettling Indigeneity
The Literary Indigene
A Strange Play
Puncturing the Horizon
Positioning
To Speak of the Other
Synopsis
PART II: INDIGENEITY
Introduction
An Imperial Orientation
Subjects of Empire
An Impossible Object
Return of the Native
The Proper Indigene
The Legal Archive
An Originary Indigeneity
An Essential Ghost
Indigeneity as Other
Desiring Indigeneity
Before the Law
PART III: LAW
Introduction
Juridical Violence
The Madness of the Decision
Justice as Law
An Idea of Justice
Legitimate Fictions
The Last Uncharted Continent
The Colonial Gaze
Origin and Content
Mythic Indigeneity
The Ancient Tribe
Law as Literature
PART IV: LITERATURE
Introduction
A Fictive Institution
The Postcolonial Project
Mimetic Indigeneities
Becoming Indigeneity
(Re)imagining Indigeneity
A Law of Alterity
A Subversive Juridicity
Recuperative Jurisprudences
Decolonising Country
Beyond the Law
To Conclude
Biography
Kathleen Birrell is based at Melbourne Law School, Australia.
