Translations is an intimate and forthright autoethnography by noted postcolonial scholar, artist and writer, Paul Carter. It describes the highly original creative practice he has developed in Australia, inspired by an examination of early colonial records of cross-cultural encounter and refracted through the precarious host-stranger relationship navigated by contemporary migrants.
Translations seeks to extract migration from the national margins and place it at the heart of contemporary struggles to decolonise social and cultural relations. His discussion of the mirroring myths that hold England and Australia in thrall to each other offers an uncanny insight into the psychology of Brexit. Carter shows that 'symbolic literacy', the capacity to mediate between geographically and culturally incommensurable realities, produces new subjects, new senses of belonging and a radically innovative approach to the recognition of Indigenous sovereignty
By:
Paul Carter
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 22mm
ISBN: 9781526158048
ISBN 10: 1526158043
Series: Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 14 January 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Prelude: Broken Relations, migrant destiny 1 Movement Forms, migrant prehistory 2 Native Informants, enigmas of communication 3 Walking the Line, the endless arrival 4 Flow Paths, topologies of coexistence 5 Dirty Art, decolonising public space 6 The Prodigal Son, parables of return 7 Story Lines, creative belonging 8 Silenced Relations, migrant poetics Postlude: Human Symbols, doubled identities Works discussed Index -- .
Paul Carter is Professor of Design (Urbanism) at RMIT University, Melbourne.
