Legacies of Indigenous Resistance

This book explores the ways in which Australian Indigenous filmmakers, performers and writers work within their Indigenous communities to tell the stories of early Indigenous resistance leaders who fought against British invaders and settlers, thus keeping their legacies alive and connected to community in the present.

Autorentext

Matteo Dutto is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. His current research explores how cultural producers collaborate with Indigenous, migrant and multiethnic communities to produce transmedia and transcultural counter-narratives of belonging and identity. His work has been published in Studies in Documentary Film and Fulgor and he recently collaborated on the production of the Australian Indigenous Film and Television (AIFTV) online knowledge sharing platform (aiftv-research.net).

Inhalt
CONTENTS: Pemulwuy as a pan-Aboriginal hero Legacies of resistance in Rachel Perkins' First Australians and Grant Leigh Saunders' Pemulwuy: A War of Two Laws The three lives of Jandamarra: Archivists, copycats and custodians Performing resistance «Keeping story alive:» Screening the voice of Bunuba Country in Mitch Torres' Jandamarra's War and Keepers of the Story Defacing colonial sovereignty in Sally Riley's Confessions of a Headhunter Breaching into the settler colonial city: Re-enacting crosshatch history in Kelrick Martin's Yagan Reflections from Yagan Square.