Decolonizing the Landscape

Beate Neumeier is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Cologne. Her research is in gender, performance, and postcolonial studies. Editor of the e-journal Gender Forum and the database GenderInn, she has published books on English Renaissance and contemporary anglophone drama, contemporary American and British-Jewish literature, and women’s writing. Kay Schaffer, an Adjunct Professor in Gender Studies and Social Analysis at the University of Adelaide, is the author of ten books and numerous articles at the intersections of gender, culture, and literary studies. Her recent publications address the Stolen Generations in Australia, life narratives in human rights campaigns, and readings of contemporary Chinese women writers.

• List of Illustrations Beate Neumeier and Kay Schaffer: Introduction Sharing Across Boundaries Kim Scott: From Drill to DanceStephen Muecke: The Great Tradition: Translating Durrudiya’s SongsAnna Haebich: Aboriginal Families, Knowledge, and the Archives: A Case StudyMichael Christie: Decolonizing Methodology in an Arnhem Land GardenEleonore Wildburger: The ‘Cultural Design’ of Western Desert ArtEthical and Other Encounters Ian Henderson: Modernism, Antipòdernism, and Australian AboriginalityBill Ashcroft: Material Resonance: Knowing Before MeaningLisa Slater: Waiting at the Border: White Filmmaking on the Ground of Aboriginal SovereigntyKay Schaffer: Wounded Spaces/Geographies of Connectivity: Stephen Muecke’s No Road (bitumen all the way), Margaret Somerville’s Body/Landscape Journals, and Katrina Schlunke’s Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a MassacreSue Kossew: Recovering the Past: Entangled Histories in Kim Scott’s That Deadman DanceReading Transformations Philip Mead: The Geopolitical Underground: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria, Mining, and the Sacred Heinz Antor: Identity and the Re-Assertion of Aboriginal Knowledge in Sam Watson’s The Kadaitcha SungAnne Brewster: Gallows Humour and Stereotyping in the Nyungar Writer. Alf Taylor’s Short Fiction: A White Cross-Racial ReadingKatrin Althans: “And in my dreaming I can let go of the spirits of the past”: Gothicizing the Common Law in Richard Frankland’s No Way to ForgetBeate Neumeier: Performative Lives – Transformative Practices: Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman, The 7 Stages of Grieving, and Richard Frankland, Conversations with the DeadNotes on Contributors