1st Edition
Representing Aboriginal Childhood The Politics of Memory and Forgetting in Australia
1.Introduction 2.Gumnut Babies and ‘Babes in the Wood’: The Nativised White Child 3.Amnesiac Recollections: The Found White Child 4.The Romance of Reconciliation: The Mixed-Race Aboriginal Child 5.‘Breeding Out the Colour’ in GevaColor: Jedda 6.Finding ‘Home’ Through the Child: Bringing Them Home and Assimilationism’s Present 7.En-Gendering Failure: Sexualised Girls, Criminalised Boys, Through the Colonial Apparatus 8.Representing Invisibility: The Indigenous Child as Subaltern 9.Conclusion: Impasse or Emergence? The Unrepresentability of the Aboriginal Child
Biography
Joanne Faulkner is Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Cultural Studies in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie University, Australia.
