Boundary writing : an exploration of race, culture, and gender binaries in contemporary Australia

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Author:

Russell, Lynette.

ISBN:

9780824830052

9780824830489

Publication Information:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2006.

Physical Description:

214 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Writing past colonialism

Writing past colonialism series.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Introduction / Lynette Russell -- Ch. 2. From beats to cybersex : Australian gay male appropriation of public spaces / Clive Moore -- Ch. 3. The nonsurgical option : deciding not to decide about gender identity / Myfanwy McDonald -- Ch. 4. Non-Anglo and non-Aboriginal Australian : multiculturalism, the third side of the black/white divide / Erez Cohen -- Ch. 5. Cultural calculus : cultural translation and the politics of indigenous cultural property / Stephen Pritchard -- Ch. 6. " ... different lives in different places" : a space for multiple white identities through Aboriginal rock music / Liz Reed -- Ch. 7. Indigenous rights and the mutability of cultures : tradition, change, and the politics of recognition / Bruno David -- Ch. 8. Beyond orality and literacy : textuality, modernity, and representation in Gularabulu : stories from the West Kimberley / Michele Grossman.

Ch. 9. Rom and the academy repositioned : binary models in Yolnu intellectual traditions and their application to wider intercultural dialogues / Aaron Corn and Neparrna Gumbula.

Subject Term:

Ethnology -- Australia.

Ethnic groups -- Australia.

Minorities -- Australia.

Group identity -- Australia.

Cultural pluralism -- Australia.

Geographic Term:

Australia -- Race relations.

Australia -- Ethnic relations.

Added Author:

Russell, Lynette.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0612/2006012481.html

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Summary

Have globalization and the emergence of virtual cultures reduced cultural diversity? Will the world become homogenized or Americanized? Boundary Writing sets out to demonstrate that this oversimplification denies the reality that today there is greater space for cultural diversity than ever before. It explores the desire to categorize individuals and collectivities into racial, ethnic, gender, and sexuality categories (black and white, men and women, gay and straight), which is a feature of most Western societies. More specifically, it analyzes the boundaries and edges of these categories and concepts.

Across nine chapters, contributors reveal that such binaries are often too restrictive. Through a series of case studies they consider how these various concepts overlap, coincide, and at times conflict.They investigate the tension between these classifications that in turn produce individual speaking positions. Many people--indigenous, native, Anglo-settler, recent migrants of diverse ethnic backgrounds, gay, transgender, queer--occupy an "in between" position that is strategically shifting with the social, political, and economic circumstances of the individual. In Boundary Writing , the reader will journey through various complex permutations of identity and in particular the ways in which indigeneity, race, sex, and gender interact and even counter-act one another.

Contributors: Erez Cohen, Aaron Corn, Bruno David, Neparrna Gumbula, Michele Grossman, Myfanwy McDonald, Clive Moore, Stephen Pritchard, Liz Reed, Lynette Russell.