SHARE

Translations, an autoethnography

Migration, colonial Australia and the creative encounter

By Paul Carter

Translations, an autoethnography
Hardcover -
  • Price: £85.00
  • ISBN: 9781526158048
  • Publish Date: Dec 2021
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Buy Now £85.00

    Delivery Exc. North and South America

    Buy

    Delivery to North and South America

    Click Here to Buy from Your Preferred Bookseller
    eBook +
  • Price: £85.00
  • ISBN: 9781526158031
  • Publish Date: Dec 2021
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Buy Now £85.00

    Delivery Exc. North and South America

    Buy

    Delivery to North and South America

    Click Here to Buy from Your Preferred Bookseller

    Book Information

    Description

    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.

    Migrant space-time, Carter argues, is not linear, but turbulent, vortical and opportunistic. Before-and-after narratives fail to capture the work of self-becoming and serve merely to perpetuate colonialist fantasies. The 'mirror state' relationship between England and Australia, its structurally symmetrical histories of land theft and internal colonisation, repress the appearance of new subjects and subject relations. Reflecting on collaborations with Aboriginal artists, Carter argues for a new definition of the stranger-host relationship predicated on recognition of Aboriginal sovereignty. Carter calls the creative practice that breaks the cycle of repeated invasion 'dirty art'.

    Translations is a passionately eloquent argument for reframing borders as crossing-places: framing less murderous exchange rates, symbolic literacy, creative courage and, above all, the emergence of a resilient migrant poetics will be essential.

    Contents

    Prelude: Broken Relations, migrant destiny
    1 Movement Forms, migrant prehistory
    2 Native Informants, enigmas of communication
    3 Walking the Line, the endless arrival
    4 Flow Paths, topologies of coexistence
    5 Dirty Art, decolonising public space
    6 The Prodigal Son, parables of return
    7 Story Lines, creative belonging
    8 Silenced Relations, migrant poetics
    Postlude: Human Symbols, doubled identities

    Works discussed
    Index

    Author

    Paul Carter is Professor of Design (Urbanism) at RMIT University, Melbourne and author of The Road to Botany Bay

    Translations, an autoethnography

    By Paul Carter

    Hardcover £85.00 / $120.00

    Or buy from your preferred bookseller:

    Amazon Waterstones Blackwells Bookshop

    Newsletter Sign Up

    Manchester University Press
    Close

    Your cart is empty.

    Total
    Select your shipping destination to estimate postage costs

    (Based on standard shipping costs)

    Final cost calculated on checkout
    Checkout
    Promotional codes can be added on Checkout