Translations, an Autoethnography

Migration, Colonial Australia and the Creative Encounter

By:

Paul Carter

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Hardback

Series:

Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography

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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

Author Biography:

Paul Carter is Professor of Design (Urbanism) at RMIT University, Melbourne and author of The Road to Botany Bay -- .

Release date Australia

December 21st, 2021

Author

Paul Carter

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

2 maps

Pages

336

Series

Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography

ISBN-13

9781526158048

Product ID

35097811

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