Exploding time past and time present
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Foley, Fiona
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2021
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THE VERY IDEA of stepping back in time as a Badtjala woman is a utopian thought. Back in time the Badtjala people traversed to and from the mainland and the islands in the Great Sandy Strait with ease. What if I could be transplanted back to thirteenth-century Australia, before the madness of the colonial project took hold? What images would I discover on this old land? What scenes would be imprinted on my imagination?THE VERY IDEA of stepping back in time as a Badtjala woman is a utopian thought. Back in time the Badtjala people traversed to and from the mainland and the islands in the Great Sandy Strait with ease. What if I could be transplanted back to thirteenth-century Australia, before the madness of the colonial project took hold? What images would I discover on this old land? What scenes would be imprinted on my imagination?
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Griffith Review: Hey, Utopia!
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Subject
Possibilities
Pitfalls
Imagining
Future