An Uncommon Ancestor: Monstrous Emanations and Australian Tales of the Bunyip
"Bunyip" is an Australian English word derived from First Nations language names for monstrous water spirits that inhabit inland waterways of southeastern Australia. But the "Bunyips" that proliferate in colonial literary fictions, especially children's stories, are what Els...
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ftjamescook:oai:researchonline.jcu.edu.au:81118 2023-12-17T10:30:11+01:00 An Uncommon Ancestor: Monstrous Emanations and Australian Tales of the Bunyip Craven, Allison Balanzategui, Jessica Craven, Allison 2023 application/pdf https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/81118/1/81118.pdf unknown Amsterdam University Press https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463726344/monstrous-beings-and-media-cultures#toc https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/81118/ https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/81118/1/81118.pdf Craven, Allison (2023) An Uncommon Ancestor: Monstrous Emanations and Australian Tales of the Bunyip. In: Balanzategui, Jessica, and Craven, Allison, (eds.) Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality. Horror and Gothic Media Cultures . Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 217-240. restricted Book Chapter PeerReviewed 2023 ftjamescook 2023-11-20T23:54:47Z "Bunyip" is an Australian English word derived from First Nations language names for monstrous water spirits that inhabit inland waterways of southeastern Australia. But the "Bunyips" that proliferate in colonial literary fictions, especially children's stories, are what Elspeth Tilley (2009) terms an "Aboriginalist creation of white folklore" and greatly diverge from biocultural knowledges of water spirits. The chapter explores the history of appropriation and then turns to recent literature and screen media by First Nations creatives which bring ancestral spirits into contemporary media. The main case study is Shadow Trackers (Curtis 2016), a documentary television show that resembles the format of paranormal reality television but educatively addresses bi-cultural audiences about the power and presence of spirit beings. Book Part First Nations James Cook University, Australia: ResearchOnline@JCU Tilley ENVELOPE(-69.483,-69.483,-69.753,-69.753) |
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"Bunyip" is an Australian English word derived from First Nations language names for monstrous water spirits that inhabit inland waterways of southeastern Australia. But the "Bunyips" that proliferate in colonial literary fictions, especially children's stories, are what Elspeth Tilley (2009) terms an "Aboriginalist creation of white folklore" and greatly diverge from biocultural knowledges of water spirits. The chapter explores the history of appropriation and then turns to recent literature and screen media by First Nations creatives which bring ancestral spirits into contemporary media. The main case study is Shadow Trackers (Curtis 2016), a documentary television show that resembles the format of paranormal reality television but educatively addresses bi-cultural audiences about the power and presence of spirit beings. |
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An Uncommon Ancestor: Monstrous Emanations and Australian Tales of the Bunyip |
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https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463726344/monstrous-beings-and-media-cultures#toc https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/81118/ https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/81118/1/81118.pdf Craven, Allison (2023) An Uncommon Ancestor: Monstrous Emanations and Australian Tales of the Bunyip. In: Balanzategui, Jessica, and Craven, Allison, (eds.) Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/materiality, Regionality. Horror and Gothic Media Cultures . Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 217-240. |
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