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Boundary writing : an exploration of race, culture, and gender
binaries in contemporary Australia
Edited by Lynette Russell
Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2006
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Book description
Have globalization and the emergence of virtual cultures reduced
cultural diversity? Will the world become homogenized or Americanized?
Boundary Writing sets out to demonstrate that this oversimplification
denies the reality that today there is greater space for cultural diversity
than ever before. It explores the desire to categorize individuals and
collectivities into racial, ethnic, gender, and sexuality categories (black
and white, men and women, gay and straight), which is a feature of most
Western societies. More specifically, it analyses the boundaries and edges
of these categories and concepts.
Across nine chapters, contributors reveal that such binaries are often too
restrictive. Through a series of case studies they consider how these
various concepts overlap, coincide, and at times conflict. They investigate
the tension between these classifications that in turn produce individual
speaking position. Many people—indigenous, native, Anglo-settler, recent
migrants of diverse ethnic backgrounds, gay, transgender, queer—occupy an
ˇ°in betweenˇ± position that is strategically shifting with the social,
political, and economic circumstances of the individual. In Boundary
Writing, the reader will journey through various complex permutations of
identity and in particular the ways in which indigeneity, race, sex, and
gender interact and even counter-act one another.
About the author
Professor Lynette Russell holds the Chair in the Centre Australian
Indigenous Studies at Monash University and is director of the Monash
Aboriginal Programs. She has published widely in the areas of
Archaeological theory, Aboriginal History, post-colonialism and
representation of race. Professor Russell's other monographs
include Appropriated pasts : indigenous peoples and the colonial
culture of archaeology (2005) and A little bird told me (2002).
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