... which does it justice." Walter Benjamin When Europe designed itself as the centre of "Enlightenment", also know as the Age of Reason, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it did so with the knowledge that an "unenlightened periphery" was thereby constructed. Thus an irreducible and fundamental bipolar structural opposition was constructed. "Enlightenment", by definition, ... were led by the light of reason. As such it was distinguished from the darkness, which supposedly characterised the Middle Ages, but also "primitive" peoples. Kant, one of the last Enlightenment thinkers, sai...

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... their own. Such parallels may not exist if they were looking at Deborah's life, instead. "Mailman revealed that as a teenager, she realised the reason her father wanted to deny their Aboriginality was a sense of shame and a wish for the best life for the children in a discriminatory world. Yet, when she won her AFI award, one relative declared she should not say she was Aboriginal because ... gap (and it may only be a small gap), has every chance of being closed, forever. Poetry Critique - But You're Not Really an Aborigine (Anita Heiss) Indigenous Australian writers were not hard to co...

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