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Translations, an autoethnography : migration, colonial Australia and the creative encounter / Paul Carter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, Paul, 1951- author.
- Series:
- Anthropology, creative practice and ethnography.
- Anthropology, creative practice and ethnography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants in art.
- Immigrants in literature.
- Art, Australian.
- Australian literature--History and criticism.
- Australian literature.
- Australia--Race relations.
- Australia.
- Australia--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 324 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Translations is a personal history written at the intersection of colonial anthropology, creative practice and migrant ethnography. Renowned postcolonial scholar, public artist and radio maker, UK-born Paul Carter documents and discusses a prodigiously varied and original trajectory of writing, sound installation and public space dramaturgy produced in Australia to present the phenomenon of contemporary migration in an entirely new light. Rejecting linear conceptualisations of migrant space-time, Carter describes a distinctively migrant psychic topology: turbulent, vortical and opportunistic. He shows that the experience of self-becoming, when mediated through a creative practice that places the enigma of communication at the heart of its praxis, produces a coherent critique of colonial regimes still dominant in discourses of belonging.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Prelude
- 1 Movement forms
- 2 Native informants
- 3 Walking the line
- 4 Flow paths
- 5 Dirty art
- 6 The prodigal son
- 7 Story lines
- 8 Silenced relations
- Postlude
- Works discussed
- Index
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 4, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Carter, Paul Translations, an Autoethnography
- ISBN:
- 9781526168283
- 1526168286
- 9781526158031
- 1526158035
- 9781526158055
- 1526158051
- OCLC:
- 1296430536
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