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Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia : Revue publiée par les Sections romane, italienne et anglaise de la Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de Zagreb, Vol. 53 No. -, 2008.

Original scientific paper

Australian Aboriginal Identity: Being and/or Becoming

Iva Polak orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-3061-4380 ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

The paper focuses on the shifting signifi er of Aboriginality as discussed by Aboriginal
public intellectuals and writers from the publication of Aboriginal Writing Today
in 1985 to the most recent anthology of essayist writing by Aboriginal Australians,
Blacklines in 2003. The discussion shows initially simple bifurcation of Aboriginal
identity on “black” constructed in opposition to “white” and a whole plethora of different
and sometimes opposing views on defining contemporary Aboriginal identity
from the 1990s onwards.

Keywords

traditional vs. contemporary Aboriginality; cultural identity; being and/or becoming; the other

Hrčak ID:

40448

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/40448

Publication date:

26.5.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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