Reflections on Post-Apology Australia: From a Poetics of Reparation to a Poetics of Survival
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2016
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Kennedy, Rosanne
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Verlag Barbara Budrich
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In the Australia of the 1990s, the idea of reconciliation, backed by government initiatives, enjoyed popular support. The discourse of reconciliation has been superseded by a discourse of 'crisis' in Aboriginal Australia. In this era of crisis, the Stolen Generations paradigm, characterised by a compassionate politics of testimony and witnessing, has lost much of its moral and political purchase. This shift provides context for my consideration of a parallel shift, from an aesthetics of reparation that flourished during the reconciliation era, to an aesthetics of survival which mediates an era of 'crisis ordinariness'.
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Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition : A Global Dialogue on Historical Trauma and Memory
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