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Mudrooroo (1938 – 2019)
No full textIn the first half of the 19th century, George Augustus Robinson’s journals, which he had written after being officially appointed Protector of the Aborigines, show the growing interest in Indigenous populations, from the very first voyages of discovery to the beginning of the 18th century. Informed by Victorian attitudes, these first accounts contributed to forging the stereotypes which have since been rewritten and subverted in novels written by white or Indigenous Australian writers alike. Wavering between the ‘noble savage’, who may benefit from education, and the ‘ignoble savage’, violent and dangerous, these stereotypes feed on accepted attitudes and fuel them with new anecdotes and experiences. The present article explores how Mudrooroo engages with the relation between fiction and History in his novels that are set at the time of the first contacts between settlers and Indigenous Australians, ‘Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World’ (1983) and the ‘Master of the Ghost Dreaming’ tetralogy (1991). Mudrooroo’s rewriting of historical events starts either a conversation or a confrontation with the depositories of the first historical accounts about those encounters – white European authors.(1)
1) This article is a translation and partial rewriting of ‘Des carnets de G. A. Robinson aux romans de Mudrooroo: la figure de l’indigène en marge de l’Histoire australienne’ published in E-rea in 2016
Mudrooroo (1938 – 2019)
No full textWilliam Edward Burghardt Du Bois is widely regarded as the most important Black American intellectual. Editor of ‘The Crisis’, author of thirty books on Blackness in America, he was a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a dogged challenger of White supremacy over seven decades. His writings inspired generations of Black activists and intellectuals. Yet Du Bois grew up with a less than clear-cut racial identity and had relatives who were White. It was only in college that he took on the unambiguously Black identity that lasted throughout his career. Mudrooroo (also known as Colin Johnson) was the most prominent Aboriginal novelist, poet, playwright, and critic from the end of the Beat era into the 1990s. Yet in the mid-1990s, he was charged with racial fraud and drummed out of the Aboriginal movement; he subsequently chose to live in self-imposed exile in Nepal. Much later, in the 2010s, he returned to Australia and ultimately reclaimed his Aboriginal identity. This article is a meditation on racial plasticity, invention, and assertion in the lives of these two iconic figures in the racial struggles of their respective countries
Use of the Internet Archive to Preserve the Constituency of Journal Editorial Boards
No full textKnowledge pertaining to scholarly publishing is not limited to information held within academic papers, and within a complex publishing environment that is in constant flux due to challenges and threats, there is interest in knowing how journals are adjusting to these parameters. The Internet Archive is a free and easy way to archive information that is found on websites. We recently argued for its use in the archival of website-based citations, and expand those arguments herein to focus on the importance to archive journal editorial boards, for three reasons: first, journals might not have any formal mechanisms to register changes in the editorial constitution of the board; second, there is historical importance in appreciating changes to editorial board constituency, including changes to gender representation; and third, changes might be made opaquely to hide or masquerade information that is intricately linked to the historical aspect of that journal. Our interest is thus not only within a historical prism, but also from a bibliometric point of view, given that the editorial board defines—to some extent—the journal’s content by serving as its gatekeepers of quality. We attempted to archive the editorial board pages of 46 journal editorial board URLs, achieving 100% mementos.Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) - Leibniz Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften (6387