Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction, Geoff Rodoreda and Eva Bischoff; PART I. MAKING HISTORY; Chapter 1. Activism before Mabo: A View from the Southeast, Lynette Russell and Rachel Standfield; Chapter 2. Remembering Koiki and Bonita Mabo, Pioneers of Indigenous Education, Paul Turnbull; PART II. MABO IN POLITICS AND PRACTICE; Chapter 3. Responsibility = Ownership? An Ethnographic Moment in Native Title, Carsten Wergin; Chapter 4. The Contributions of Linguistics to Native Title Claims, Christina Ringel; PART III. MABO AND FILM; Chapter 5. Australian Indigenous Filmmaking Beyond Mabo: The Emergence of Indigenous Australian Visual Sovereignty, Romaine Moreton and Therese Davis; Chapter 6. Filmic Representations of Eddie Mabo in a Changing Cultural Imaginary, Renate Brosch; Chapter 7. Torres Strait Screen Media ‘Post- Mabo’: Between Representation and Institution, Peter Kilroy; PART IV. FICTION AND POETRY; Chapter 8. Melissa Lucashenko’s Mullumbimby: The FemaleBody as the Locus of Knowing and Tradition, Philip Morrissey; Chapter 9. Writing the Land, Writing Relations: Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance, Dorothee Klein; Chapter 10. Aboriginal Jurisprudence in Philip McLaren’s Lightning Mine, Katrin Althans; Chapter 11. Rewriting History, Rewriting Identity: Terra Nullius in Australian Poetry after Mabo, Lioba Schreyer; PART V. MABO AND MEMOIR; Chapter 12. Are We Better Than This?: Stan Grant and the Post-Mabo Blues, Lars Jensen; Chapter 13. Beyond Native Title: Literary Justice in the Post-Mabo Memoir, Kieran Dolin; List of Contributors; Index.

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Examines the broader impacts on Australian culture and cultural practice of the Australian High Court’s landmark Mabo decision of 1992

About the Author

Geoff Rodoreda is a lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Eva Bischoff is an assistant professor in the Department of International History at Trier University, Germany.

Reviews

“This book makes a major contribution to indigenous studies in Australia. It continues and extends the valuable work of Rodoreda in assessing the impact of the Mabo decision in Australian culture. The strengths of the book lie in the range of its analysis, facilitated by the range of subject areas and the number of contributors. The essays are scholarly and extend the work on Australian (both indigenous and non-indigenous) cultural developments after the Mabo decision in ways that provide a comprehensive context for considerations of the progress of Indigenous justice in Australia.” —Bill Ashcroft, Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales

“The Mabo decision of the Australian High Court in 1992 transformed both law and history. It attracted a large scholarly literature in the ensuing 30 years with focus on jurisprudence and politics. Far less has been written on the significant influence on the wider cultural landscape. This book admirably and comprehensively surveys the impact of Mabo on history, literature and the visual arts. It is clearly essential reading for anyone interested in Australian history and culture in the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries.” —Henry Reynolds, Honorary Research Professor, Aboriginal Studies Global Cultures & Languages, University of Tasmania