Author(s): Annalisa Oboe (Ed)

Literary - Studies, Criticism, Theory | Aboriginal/Indigenous | Social Science, Economic History, Race/Identity, Peace/Cultural/ International Studies

This volume (Cross Cultures 64) reviews the Australian writer Mudrooroo's career and deals with central issues of identity, authenticity and truth. After 1996, academics and writers in Australia and around the world endorsed or denied Mudrooroo's Aboriginality after research had dramatically called his Indigenous identity into question. There has also been a long silence among fans of Mudrooroo, who has not commented publicly on his racial belonging. These challenging and lively reflections by European and Australian scholars and writers are not meant to discuss whether Mudrooroo can legitimately sign his works with an Aboriginal name (an essentialist and problematic view of identity and authenticity). Instead, they explore how Mudrooroo's writing restages the drama of subjectivity in terms of articulation' rather than authentication', and ask how we are to read him now in the face of current accusations and the cultural scenario of Aboriginal arts and studies.

Very good condition. Minor scuffing on cover.