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This seminar will deal with the issue of Australia’s ‘stolen generations’, i.e. the fate of indigenous and mixed-race Australian children forcefully removed from their families, assimilated, exploited and uprooted from the early 20th century to the late 1960s. Sally Morgan’s autobiography My Place (1987) initiated a public debate on this previously silenced issue and it was only in 2008 that Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a formal apology to Australia’s indigenous population. We will study historical documents and visual as well as textual representations of the issue. This seminar will include a one-day excursion to the Aboriginal Art Museum Utrecht/NL.
Students need to read the texts listed below before the beginning of the semester (will be tested within the first three weeks of the semester!).
In order to receive credit points, participants will prepare a presentation.
Texts:
- Sally Morgan, My Place (Virago)
- Doris Pilkington Garimara, Rabbit-Proof Fence (Miramax)
- Doris Kartinyeri, Kick the Tin (Spinifex)
- A course reader containing a selection of further texts, primary as well as secondary, will be available at Kopiersysteme Priebe, Segerothstr. 81 from 10 October 2011.
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