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Indigenous youth and ambivalence in some Australian films
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Indigenous youth and ambivalence in some Australian films

D. Palmer and G. Gillard
Journal of Australian Studies, Vol.28(82), pp.75-84
2004
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Abstract

At least since the Enlightenment, social theorists have understood that the 'self is fashioned through relationship with its Other, so that the making of one's identity rests upon negating, repressing or excluding one's opposite. 1 In other words, the stranger, described by Georg Simmel as the one who crosses borders, between inside and outside, and the one who is 'both near and far at the same time', 2 is a highly important figure and often the object of fascination...

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