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The Lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha Community 2011 Thesis Title: White Lives in a Black Community: The lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha community Faculty of Education, Humanities, Law and Theology, Flinders University Adelaide, South Australia Student Name: Rev Tracy Louise Spencer B.Sc (Psychology) University of Melbourne, 1989 B.Ed (Counselling) LaTrobe University, 1991 B. Theology Flinders University, 1996 Submission Date: 1/4/2011 1 Volume Two: Exegetical Essays White Lives in a Black Community: The lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha community Tracy Spencer Volume Two: Exegetical Essays Table of Contents Authors Note ................................................................................................................................................. 3 Section A Part 1: Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 5 Exegetical Essay One ................................................................................................................................ 5 ‘You are writing a gospel…’: ‘hybrid life writing’ and the lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha community. .................................................................................................................... 5 Sources and Methodology ..................................................................................................................... 6 Politics of representation and authorial relationship to material and participants. ............................... 8 Introduction to the Text ........................................................................................................................ 9 ‘A truly polyphonic text’ .................................................................................................................... 17 ‘Genre’ and critical practice. ............................................................................................................... 27 Conclusion .......................................................................................................................................... 34 Section A Part 2: Journeys ......................................................................................................................... 43 Exegesis Essay Two ................................................................................................................................ 43 White journeys to black country: Biblical Journeying to Australia. ....................................................... 43 An exegesis of the metaphor of journey, through Biblical motifs and colonial migrations. ................... 43 Section B: Identity ....................................................................................................................................... 58 Exegesis Essay Three .............................................................................................................................. 58 ‘White Woman Lives as a Lubra in Native Camp’: representations of shared space. ............................ 58 Section C: Contact Zone ............................................................................................................................. 83 Exegetical Essay Four ............................................................................................................................. 83 White Journeys into Black Country. ....................................................................................................... 83 Spencer, Tracy ‘White Journeys into Black Country.’ Journeying and Journalling: Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing. Ed. G. Bastin, K. Douglas, M. McCrea and M.X. Savvas Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2010 .................................................................................................... 95 Section D: Meetings .................................................................................................................................... 95 Exegetical Essay Five ............................................................................................................................. 96 Getting Off the verandah‘: contextual Australian theology in-land and in story. ................................... 96 Spencer, Tracy ‘White Journeys into Black Country.’ Journeying and Journalling: Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing. Ed. G. Bastin, K. Douglas, M. McCrea and M.X. Savvas Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2010 .................................................................................................. 113 Section E: Transculturations .................................................................................................................... 113 Exegetical Essay Six ............................................................................................................................. 114 ‘We had to give them everything’: Adnyamathanha agency in the economy of ‘whiteness.’ .............. 114 Section F: Belonging ................................................................................................................................. 130 Exegetical Essay Seven ......................................................................................................................... 131 Towards A Theology of Decolonisation: Living, Loving, Dying together in Adnyamathanha yarta. 131 Authors Note This collection of seven exegetical essays represents the chronological emergence of six primary themes during the writing of the hybrid life writing narrative, White Lives in a Black Community: The lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha community. These themes – the hermeneutics and politics of postcolonial and hybrid life writing (Introduction), colonial journeys and migrations (Journeying), the meaning and making of a ‘real White Australian’ (Identity), the dynamics host-stranger encounters in the colonial contact zones (Meetings), migrating subjectivities and the theology of incarnation (Transculturations), and the achievement of settler belonging (Belonging) – have emerged from the material itself, as well as being shaped through the discipline of academic conferences and journals exploring these topics for their contemporary relevance to race relations in Australia. My hope is also that exploring these themes contributes to a yet-to-be-had national conversation about decolonisation in Australia, and what that might look like. 3 White Lives in a Black Community: The lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha community Tracy Spencer Volume Two: Exegetical Essays The life writing material could have been exegeted for many more fascinating and relevant themes, and perhaps it will beyond this thesis. For instance, gender constructions in Australian contact zones is deserving of attention, as is the role of eidetic landscapes in the shaping of the stories that emerge from those locations, and the crucial role and symbol of water in the Australian outback. Missionary theology is not comprehensively surveyed, nor the developing contrast between Jim Page’s theology and that of the UAM although this is paramount to the climax of the narrative. These topics and several others receive a glancing treatment only. Although the exegetical essays are set in sections which relate directly to sequential chapters of the hybrid life writing narrative, each essay addresses the narrative as a whole, with special reference to the excerpted chapters of the narrative in Volume One which best illustrates and exposes the theme and its implications. For this reason, direct references to lines or paragraphs in the text are scant, with more emphasis on the readers general knowledge of the sweep of the text and the matters it raises, for the historical characters, for its contemporary informants, for its author and for its future and present readership. Many of these essays have appeared in publications and been presented at conferences. They have been edited for this collection in order to reduce repetition, and arranged to cumulatively build a multifaceted argument for decolonised relationships between Indigenous Australians and white settler Australians. They do not represent stages in an argument, so much as a series of prisms through which this aspiration, and the parable which contains it, may be viewed. Consistent with this, each essay preserves its own list of Works Cited. For ease of reference, however, Endnotes for all essays are in one section at the end of the document. Section A Part 1: Introduction Refer to Volume One Section A Life Writing Chapter 1 Exegetical Essay One ‘You are writing a gospel…’: ‘hybrid life writing’ and the lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha community.1 You are writing a Gospel A chapter each day, By deeds that you do, By words that you say. Men read what you write, Whether faithless or true; Say what is the Gospel According to you?2 This essay describes the methodology and construction of the postmodern and postcolonial hybrid life-writing text for the project ‘White Lives in a Black Community: the lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha community’ in Book One. It argues that the transparent production of hybrid life writing preserves an ‘ethic of decolonisation’ by refusing to collaborate with colonial and hegemonic literary forms that obscure the polyphonic nature of postcolonial history-telling. It also argues that the hybrid life writing genre adopted
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