Memory Fragments
Visualising Difference in Australian History
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
215 pages
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20 halftones
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7 x 9
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© 2012
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Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Collecting Junk/Collecting Memory
1. The Trash of History: The Timeliness of Benjamin’s Dialectical Images
2. Fossilising the Commodity: Ricky Swallow’s Art of Crafting Time in Postmodern Culture
3. "China China": Autoethnography as Literal Translation in Ah Xian’s Porcelain Forms
4. Melancholy Debris: Black Humour and Colonial Memory in Work by Julie Gough
5. Australian Modernity: The Metaphorics of Mining in Donna Marcus’ Compositions
After-Images: Visualising Difference
Works Cited
Introduction: Collecting Junk/Collecting Memory
1. The Trash of History: The Timeliness of Benjamin’s Dialectical Images
2. Fossilising the Commodity: Ricky Swallow’s Art of Crafting Time in Postmodern Culture
3. "China China": Autoethnography as Literal Translation in Ah Xian’s Porcelain Forms
4. Melancholy Debris: Black Humour and Colonial Memory in Work by Julie Gough
5. Australian Modernity: The Metaphorics of Mining in Donna Marcus’ Compositions
After-Images: Visualising Difference
Works Cited
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