Index Note: ‘n’ after a page reference voice, 130 denotes a note number on that writing, 43–4, 47–8 page. see also Australians/indigenous; abandonment, 49, 56, 58, 59, 84, 86, authorship; beliefs 119, 123, 182, 262, 287, 297 Aboriginality, 87, 90–2 abjection, 108n9 abortion, 137 Aboriginal absolution, 242 activists, 85 abstraction, 57, 101–2, 248, 256, 306 actors, 85, 90 absurdity, 123, 199, 203 and settler history, 84 abuse, 181, 188, 198–9, 214 assimilation, 84–6, 105; see also mental, 32 assimilation physical, 32 Australian, 28, 42, 84, 87, 90–3, sexual, 32, 49 102–7 academic institutions, 42–3, 49, 218, authorship, 44, 47–8 246 beliefs, 92 Academy at Navarre, 215 Canadian, 28–40 Antioch College, 298 characters, 86, 90 Barker College, 217 concepts, 90 Cambridge, 159, 207, 278 consciousness, 30 Columbia, 266, 273 cultures, 33–4, 43 Oxford, 150 families, 43 Oxford Brookes University, 207 genocide, 30 UC Berkeley, 298–9 hand painting, 106 UCLA, 298 heritage, 91 University of Adelaide, 42 individuals, 34 University of Auckland, 42 literatures, 43 University of Birmingham, 243 men, 51 University of British Columbia, 43 militant position, 47 University of Nottingham, 207 non-Aboriginal attitudes to University of Sydney, 217 reconciliation, 28–40 academics, 10, 43, 66–7, 79n1, origin, 42 132, 217–8, 225, 243, 245, peoples, 28, 34, 40, 42, 91–2, 104, 107 259 policy, 33 acceptance, 59, 62, 171, 182, power, 91 188, 204–5, 231, 242, 280, reconciliation, 28, 36, 39 282, 285 remote communities, 86, 105 account, definitive, 78 scholars, 85 accuracy, 7, 56, 72–4, 122, 232, 264, singing, 102 270, 292, 304–5 Stolen Generations; see Stolen inaccuracies, 6, 126 , 262 Generations Ackerman, Diana, 124 307 308 Index action, 7, 31, 39, 90, 93, 127, 160–2, agenda, 46 165, 215, 222, 278, 281, 283–4, historical revisionist, 125 292, 297 national, 28 action films; see genre of reconciliation, 28, 30–1 speaking as, 42, 44 aggression, 57, 186, 204, 255, 303 activism, 33, 48, 50–2, 85, 126, 149; AIDS, 49 see also protest airplanes, 138, 295, 304 actors, 3, 85, 94, 97–8, 102, 107, airport-books, 262 109n16, 167–73, 176–8, 183, alchemical, 159 186, 188, 211–2, 232 Algeria, 271 Adamson, Andrew, 23 algorithmecity, 292 Mr Pip, 23 Alice-through-the-looking-glass, 142 Prince Caspian, 24 alien, 102, 152 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, alienation, 88 24 All Blacks, the, 19 administrations, 7, 49, 116, 118–9, allegory, 248–9, 252 121–2 alliteration, 69, 72 adoption, 85, 105 allusions, 235 adultery, 169; see also infidelity Alvè s, Audrey, 72 adulthood, 11 ambivalence, 84, 88, 120, 187, 265 adventure, 91, 159, 162, 175, 177–8, America(n), 284, 295 200, 250 Anglo-, 124 story, 90–1, 254 editions, 68 advertisement, 15; see also commercial film-makers, 108 aesthetic, 51, 98, 193, 245, 248 history, 125 ambivalence, 88 Native, 126 criticism, 86 North, 22 dilemmas, 95 South, 22 failure, 88 North American Indian literatures, frames of the coloniser, 47; see also 44 coloniser poets, 55, 64 hyperbole, 85 production company, 21 imperative, 15 psychologist, 279 oral, 44 reviewers, 73 properties of discourse, 39 students, 269 strategies, 97 TV, 24, 103 affiliation, 37, 39, 247 versions, 67, 299 Afghanistan, 299 writers, 114, 124 Africa, 24 see also USA northern, 162 Americas Cup, 19 savannah, 277 Amossy, Ruth, 88–9, 93 West, 299 analogues, 9 African-American writing, 45 analogy, 91, 199 African Queen, The (1951), 102 analysis, 3–5, 37, 39, 110n27, 191, agency, 3–4, 87, 105, 134, 183, 266 206, 219, 267, 280 feminine, 228, 233–6 analytical vocation, 10, 258 material, 255 ancestors, 16–23, 46, 51, 129, 145 of audience, 10 ancestral text, 94 of God, 255 ancestry, Ma¯ ori, 48; see also Ma¯ori Index 309 ancient welfare, 125 amphitheatre, 139 wolves, 129 Celtic myths, 55 animus, 287–8 Éire, 56 anonymity, 88, 123, 161, 179n3, 202, history, 9 205 knowledge, 52 Antarctica, 22 narratives, 55 anthology, 48, 133, 158 philosophers, 198 Anthology of Aboriginal Writing, tales, 1 Macquarie Pen, 47 Rome, 15 anthropologists, 50, 135 androgyny, 229 anthropology, 254, 260 angels, 26, 174 anthropomorphic, 102 anger, 122, 175, 182, 187, 284 Antill, John Henry, 19 Anglicanism, 246, 247n3, 254; see Antipodean also Church clichés, 6, 86, 89, 104 post-, 247n3 matrix, 20 Anglo-Saxon, 151 stories, 88 angst, 284 antiquarian, 247 animal, 123–5, 127–30 anxiety, 128, 143, 184, 188, 194, 207, apes, 78 284 asses, 183, 249 Anzacs, the, 19 bears, 129 Aotearoa, 17, 19–20, 22, 25, 27, 142, beavers, 129 148, 153; see also New Zealand bison, 124, 129 Apetrei, Sarah, 260n7 boars, 185 apology, buffaloes, 277, 281, 284 anti-, 32 catfish, 128 Australian (2008), 28, 31–2, 85 cats, 58 Canadian, 28, 36 cattle, 84, 90, 98, 101–4, 106, 124, debate, 31 129 empty, 39 chickens, 146 post-, 105 cows, 102, 109n23 pro-, 32, 38 crabs, 213 aposiopesis, 93 crocodiles, 128, 277, 281 Apostles, Acts of the, 163 deer, 213–4 apotheosis, 253 dogs, 86, 92, 94 appropriation, 52, 88, 91, 96, 159, 235 elephants, 128, 163, 245 arbitration, 29 enclosures, 129 arcane, 223 falconry, 186 archaeology, 153, 182, 223 -grabbing, 124 archaic, 222, 244 horses, 103, 124, 129, 183–4, 186, archetypes, 56, 76 210, 232, 250 Archimedes, 199 lambs, 249, 251 architects, 255 lions, 185, 277, 281 architecture, 25 lovers, 123 archivism, 98–9 oxen, 183 Arctic, the, 22 pigs, 120, 146 argument, 57, 104–5, 170, 186, rabbits, 149 188, 200, 202–4, 229, 268, steeds, 186, 249–50 291 310 Index aristocrat, 85, 102, 108, 117, 170, 194, aurality, 44 206 Auschwitz, 119 Aristotle, 277, 281 Auster, Paul, 10, 261–75 armour, 250, 254 Ghosts, 261, 274 army, 51, 77, 104, 150–1 Invisible, 261–75 British, 119 New York Trilogy, 261–2, 273 German, 120 Postmodernity, 263 New Zealand, 145 Sunset Park, 273 Ottoman, 160 Austin-Broos, Diane, 110n26 Red, 128 Australia, 16, 18–32, 39–43, 47, 53, arrival, 17–8, 69–70, 92, 102, 149, 83–113, 124–8, 130, 132–3, 164, 215, 247, 258, 277, 281, 286, 154, 207, 218 287, 288, 289, 292 Arnhem Land, 90 arrogance, 186 Bathurst Island, 84 art, 19, 25, 43–5, 51, 87, 94, 99, 133, Bathurst, 109n18 176–7, 211, 245, 293 Cairns, 29 design, 87 Canberra, 84 divine, 1 Castle Hill, 30 historians, 127 Darwin, 84, 90, 92, 94, 96–7, artefacts, 1–2 104–5, 107, 110n31 artifice, 97 East Maitland, 99 Artinger, Kai, 125, 127–30 Edmonton (QLD), 29 artists, 15, 19, 64, 92, 106–7, 243, 287, Emu Plains, 30 293, 299–301, 305 Gisborne, 25 Aryan, 7, 124 Kempsey, 100 Asia, 22, 25 Leichhardt, 101 assassination, 150 Melbourne, 94, 133 assertion, 197, 204, 255 Melville Islands, 109n18 assimilation, 35, 52, 71, 84–6, 105 Moreton Bay, 30 assonance, 69 New South Wales, 9, 30 Atlantic, the, 51, 125 Northern Territory, 51, 84, 87, atlases 107; see also Northern Territory Ortelius’s, 163 Emergency Response (2007) Orbis Terrarum, 163 outback, 6, 85, 87, 90–2, 94, 102, atmosphere, 45, 145, 162, 242 109n15 atomism, 192–5 Port Macquarie, 30 Epicurean, 193 Queensland, 29, 87 Lucretian, 193 Sydney, 83, 94, 102, 128, 207, 217 atrocities, 126, 136 tourism, 84, 86, 94 attitudes, 28, 30–32, 36, 39–40, 143, see also White Australia Policy 186, 279 Australian High Commission, 90 audience, 4, 9–11, 43, 46, 50, 59, 61, Australian Research Council, 39, 207, 63–4, 67, 72, 79, 83–4, 88–9, 217, 220n2 92–9, 105, 107, 109, 161–2, 164, Australians, 22, 31–2, 42, 47, 86, 87, 168, 173–4, 177, 180, 182–3, 186, 91, 97, 102–3, 108n9, 109n16, 227, 242, 258, 277–84, 300, 303, Aboriginal; see Aboriginal 305 British, 87 audio tracks, 94 Chinese, 87, audiovisual texts, 84 European, 43, 87, Index 311 Greek Cypriot, 132–3 baby-boomers, 123 indigenous, 20, 31–2, 39, 42–3, 47, Babylon, 161 84–6, 98, 102–6, 130 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 287 authenticity, 30, 47, 53–4, 69, Bacon, Francis, 193, 208n11 73, 78, 129–30, 212, 219, Bail, Murray, 16 267 Baines, James, 107 inauthentic, 130, 194 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 212–4, 216–8 author, 1, 10, 16, 31, 60, 67, 70–1, ballads, 30, 165, 184, 186 75, 78, 110n26, 132, 143, 153, Bandello, Matteo, 159, 161–2 158, 160, 169, 205, 212, 225, banishment, 30, 175, 251 261, 263, 270–1, 273, 283, banter, 217 286, 289–91 baptism, 257 authorial composition, 226 Barber, Cesar Lombardi, 220n1 authorial persona, 191, 194, 207; see Barnes, Douglas, 219 also persona Barrows, Annie, 114–5, 119–21 ability to manipulate, 65 Barthes, Roland, 2, 158 as reliable guide, 71 Bashir, Bashir, 33 autonomy of, 125 Baskin, Ken, 2 co-, 42, 179n6, 212, 241, 260n9 Battalion, 28th Ma¯ori, 143, 145–8, death of the, 158, 160; see also 150, 153n1 Barthes battle, 19, 55, 60, 148, 185, 187, 253, female, 208 297 intention, 283 at Kruger, 227, 280–1, 284 narrative skill of, 114 of Britain, 116 omniscient, 70, 270; see also sea, 160 omniscience -weary, 257 successful, 273 see also conflict and war truth claims of, 7; see also truth bawdy, 163, 165, 170 will of, 286 Baxter, James K., 19 see also narrative and narrator Bayliss, Troy-Anthony, 42 authoritarianism, 219 BBC, the, 117, 211 authority, 151, 197, 213, 217–8, 223, Beard, Mary, 211 225, 248 Beatles, the, 296 authorities, 47, 57 Beaumont, Francis, 179n6 German, 119, 120, 129; see also beauty, 122, 147, 189, 231, 233 Germany Beckett, Tom, 16 investigating, 119 Bedard, Irene, 126 military, 118; see also war beggars, 150 authorship, 197 beginnings, 1, 5, 11, 20, 26, 43, 66, Aboriginal, 47 68, 100, 102, 103, 117–8, 142, norms, 85 181, 232, 241, 243, 250, 256, privilege, 10 267, 269, 270, 271–2, 279, autobiography, 3, 43–4, 142, 292 281, 293 avatars, 26, 251–2 Beidler, Peter G., 179n5 awareness, 95, 99, 120, 145, 147, 195, being(s), 4, 47, 145, 214, 231–2, 251, 280, 298 265, 274–5,