Aboriginal Surfing: Reinstating Culture and Country

摘要: Mainstream surfing in Australia is a discursive cultural practice, institutionally sanctioned as integral to national identity. Surfing represents the nation through mode of white heterosexual orientation that encoded into its practices and texts. an historical transformation psyche from bush, inaugurated by nation’s literary canon, beach, which has become modern site Indigenous provides oppositional view country reinscribes beach with meanings specific Aboriginal cultures. this context can be seen reclamation culture challenge dominance conceptions This paper examines indigenous film, "Surfing Healing Wave" explores film's representations histories are relevant people. The narrative disruption film genre instates pedagogical practice functions reinscribe contemporary event contest.