期刊名称：Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
印刷版ISSN：1832-3898
电子版ISSN：1838-8310
出版年度：2012
卷号：8
期号：1
出版社：Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (ACRAWSA)
摘要：The containment, control and assumption of possession of Indigenous Australianperformance by white settlers in the nineteenth century and the performance of that possession have been critical elements in the enterprise of colonisation. This act of possessionhashad and continuesto have a major impact on Euro-Australian knowledge of the shared exchanges of performance over much of the last 220 years. In accounts of Aboriginal Australian performances from 'blood curdling shrieks' at the beginning of the nineteenth century to termssuch as 'sham' and 'whitey-black corroborees' by the end, imposed notions of authenticity act as a weapon of whiteness to assist in the colonising process through the effective erasure of cultural practices and to deny not only the authority of Indigenouspeople but also their 'authentic' physical presence. This paper examines the directions taken in the shifting notions of authenticity used by white writers and painters to legitimise or dismiss Aboriginal performances and cultures across the nineteenth century
