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Contents May 1998
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Target Article
In Traces of '65: sites and memories
of the post-coup
killings in Bali Denis Byrne reflects on the absence of physical traces of the 1965
killings and looks to the role of memory in commemoration.
Plus
Julie Stephens looks at "Cultural outlaws, political organizers" in an excerpt from
her new book anti-DISCIPLINARY protest:
sixties radicalism and postmodernism.
Beth Spencer's
D-Cups, Groin-guards & Supermodels: Writing the body into history
visits recent publications on the subjects, past masters, various theorists and her
own imagination to weave together a fascinating essay.
Ian McLean's
Aboriginalism: White Aborigines and Australian Nationalism explores traces
identity politics through Australian Art, particularly looking
at the various ways in which white Australian artists and essayists
have appropriated Aboriginal
space.
Kerryn Goldsworthy on sexual harassment and institutional life in the wake of the
Ormond College affair.
David Carter reviews McKenzie Wark's The Virtual Republic:
Australia's Culture Wars of the 1990s.
Ian Buchanan's
Misrecognition in Titanic
discusses the various
ways in which 'Titanic' deflects both feminist and Marxist inquiry.
In emuse
The Body in History
Beth Spencer's article
D-Cups, Groin-guards & Supermodels: Writing the body into history
has had responses from
Needing His Signature
Moira McAuliffe,
David Hart and Adi Wimmer respond
to Kerryn Goldsworthy's article
Needing His Signature.
Mabo
Kevin Murray discusses a touring exhibition, "Turn
the Soil" which
contributes to the debate surrounding
Henry Reynolds's
"After Mabo,What About Aboriginal Sovereignty?".
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