Wild Dogs and Decolonization: Ivan Sen’s Mystery Road and Omar Musa’s Here Come the Dogs

• Main Author: Ralph, Iris
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Online 2022
• Subjects: First Nations Australians; Omar Musa; Ivan Sen; Here Come the Dogs; Mystery Road; biosecurity; dingoes; pastoral; wild dogs; Animal Studies; First Nations Studies; Literature and Film Studies; Agricultural and Resource Economics; Art and Design; Art Practice; Arts and Humanities; Australian Studies; Communication; Creative Writing; Digital Humanities; Education; English Language and Literature; Feminist; Gender; and Sexuality Studies; Film and Media Studies; Fine Arts; Legal Studies; Linguistics; Philosophy; Political Science; Public Health; Race; Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Sociology; Theatre and Performance Studies; Lone; Musa; First Nations
• Online Access: https://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol11/iss1/4; https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1555&context=asj

The broad subject of First Nations and decolonial perspectives on animal flourishing is addressed in this paper in a reading of references to canids in Mystery Road (2013), a film by the First Nations-Australian director, Ivan Sen, and Here Come the Dogs (2014), a novel by the Malaysian-Australian a...