"The white man never wanna hear nothin about what's different from him" : representations of law's 'other' in Australian literature, (electronic resource)

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"The white man never wanna hear nothin about what's different from him" : representations of law's 'other' in Australian literature, (electronic resource)

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http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20090318.172325

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representations of law's 'other' in Australian literature

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electronic resource

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• "The white man never wanna hear nothin about what's different from him" : representations of law's 'other' in Australian literature

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• 2009

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Contents

Questions of law and literature -- Regulating the social: the role and force of law; Inclusion and exclusion: the boundaries of law; Literature: what is it and why is it useful; Ways of reading -- Terra Nullius -- An empty land; 'The miserablest race on earth': stories of 'primitives', dispossession and the founding of a nation; Mabo and the fiction of Terra Nullius: retelling stories of dispossession -- The rule of law -- 'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others'; equality under the rule of law; "These stories cry out to be heard": 'My Place', 'Benang' and the '1905 Aborigines Act'; Sorry; Conclusion; References

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u403601

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