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  • 标题:Beyond Savagery: The Limits of Australian ‘Aboriginalism’
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  • 作者:Kay Anderson ; Colin Perrin
  • 期刊名称:Cultural Studies Review
  • 电子版ISSN:1837-8692
  • 出版年度:2008
  • 卷号:14
  • 期号:2
  • 页码:147-147–69
  • 出版社:University of Technology, Sydney
  • 摘要:Ideas and representations of the supposedly savage condition of the New World's indigenous peoples have informed a now familiar account of colonialism. These have been understood as the ‘constructions’ of a discourse concerned to justify its colonisation of indigenous lands, and to legitimate its dispossession of indigenous peoples. There is no doubt that racial stereotypes were invoked to support colonialism. But their instrumentalisation—as self-serving constructions of ‘otherness’—has not only tended to define the colonial ‘encounter’ as a unilateral exercise of power; in so doing, it has effaced its very character as an encounter. In this paper, we critically engage this account of colonial discourse in its application to the Australian colonial context. Drawing less upon Edward Said’s description of the power of discourse, and more upon Homi Bhabha’s attempt to elicit its limits, our aim here is to restore to the Australian colonial encounter something of its specificity as an encounter. For this encounter, we argue here, provides a salient—if not a crucial—instance of the failure of colonial discourse to ‘construct’ Aboriginal peoples as savages.
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