LEADER 05623nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910452933503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a3-11-028879-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110288797 035 $a(CKB)2550000001096736 035 $a(EBL)893186 035 $a(OCoLC)826482443 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000827147 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11434342 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000827147 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10821558 035 $a(PQKB)10338627 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC893186 035 $a(DE-B1597)177058 035 $a(OCoLC)1013948411 035 $a(OCoLC)853244325 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110288797 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL893186 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10649257 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL503270 035 $a(OCoLC)828738613 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001096736 100 $a20121221d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNed Kelly as memory dispositif$b[electronic resource] $emedia, time, power, and the development of Australian identities /$fLaura Basu 210 $aBerlin ;$aBoston $cDe Gruyter$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (220 p.) 225 1 $aMedia and cultural memory = Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung,$x1613-8961 ;$v13 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-028850-8 311 $a1-299-72019-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tCHAPTER 1. 1878-1882: The Power of the Press -- $tCHAPTER 2. 1882-1930: Truth and Myth, the Bushman and the Empire -- $tCHAPTER 3. 1930-1960: High Culture and Deferred Identities -- $tCHAPTER 4 1960-1990: The Bushman Breaks Down -- $tCHAPTER 5. 1990-2010: Ned Kelly and the Global Nation -- $tConclusion -- $tReferences -- $tReferences without Author -- $tIndex 330 $aNineteenth-century outlaw Ned Kelly is perhaps Australia's most famous historical figure. Ever since he went on the run in 1878 his story has been repeated time and again, in every conceivable medium. Although the value of his memory has been hotly contested - and arguably because of this - he remains perhaps the main national icon of Australia. Kelly's flamboyant crimes turned him into a popular hero for many Australians during his lifetime and far beyond: a symbol of freedom, anti authoritarianism, anti imperialism; a Robin Hood, a Jesse James, a Che Guevara. Others have portrayed him as a villain, a gangster, a terrorist. His latest incarnation has been as WikiLeaks founder and fellow Australian "cyber outlaw" Julian Assange. Despite the huge number of representations of Kelly - from rampant newspaper reporting of the events, to the iconic Sidney Nolan paintings, to a movie starring Mick Jagger, to contemporary urban street art - this is the first work to take this corpus of material itself as a subject of analysis. The fascinating case of this young outlaw provides an important opportunity to further our understanding of the dynamics of cultural memory. The book explains the processes by which the cultural memory of Ned Kelly was made and has developed over time, and how it has related to formations and negotiations of national identity. It breaks new ground in memory studies in the first place by showing that cultural memories are formed and develop through tangles of relations, what Basu terms memory dispositifs. In introducing the concept of the memory dispositif, this volume brings together and develops the work of Foucault, Deleuze, and Agamben on the dispositif, along with relevant concepts from the field of memory studies such as allochronism, colonial aphasia, and multidirectionality, the memory site - especially as developed by Ann Rigney - and Jan Assmann's figure of memory. Secondly, this work makes important headway in our understanding of the relationships between cultural memory and national identity, at a time when matters of identity appear to be more urgent and fraught than ever. In doing so, it shows that national identities are never purely national but are always sub- and transnational. The Ned Kelly memory dispositif has made complex and conflicting contributions to constructions of national identity. Ever since his outlawry, the identities invested in Kelly and those invested in the Australian nation have, in a two-way dynamic, fused into and strengthened each other, so that Kelly is in many ways a symbol for the national identity. Kelly has come to stand for an anti-establishment, working class, subaltern, Irish-inflected national identity. At the same time he has come to represent and enforce the whiteness, hyper-heterosexual masculinity and violence of "Australianness". Basu shows that Kelly has therefore always functioned in both radical and conservative ways, often both at once: a turbulent, Janus-faced figure. 410 0$aMedia and cultural memory ;$v13. 606 $aNationalism and collective memory$zAustralia 606 $aNational characteristics, Australian$xIn mass media 606 $aGroup identity$zAustralia 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNationalism and collective memory 615 0$aNational characteristics, Australian$xIn mass media. 615 0$aGroup identity 676 $a994 700 $aBasu$b Laura$f1981-$01042851 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452933503321 996 $aNed Kelly as memory dispositif$92467390 997 $aUNINA