Vol. 4, Issue 12, Part G (2018)

Abstract
The cultural crisis for Australian aboriginal people is characterized by this ambivalence between a bioregional way of life and the newly consolidated framework of a standardized, centralized culture of a nation. The ambivalent state has its further cultural implication as it problematizes the prospect of redemption for the aboriginal communities. In the post-interventionist ear the question of cultural redemption for aboriginal communities has dual implications - either remembering and reviving old spatial ties or forgetting old values and immersing into new cultural formations. If remembering involves continuation and survival of culture, in oppositional and equal terms forgetting also involves cultural shifts. The problematic duel between inner turmoil and redemption will be discussed through a reading of Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance (2012).