Ned Kelly as memory dispositif : media, time, power, and the development of Australian identities / Laura Basu.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction; 1. Sites and Dispositifs; 2. Media; 3. Time; 4. Power; 5. Australian Identities; 6. Ned Kelly; Chapter 1. 1878-1882: The Power of the Press; 1. The Kelly Memory Dispositif: The Power of the Press; i. Memorialisation: Mediation and Time; ii. Incorporation part I: Mediation; iii. Incorporation part II: Mediation and Power; iv. The Press, the Sympathisers, and the Authorities; 2. Identity; i. The Criminal Class; ii. From Antithetical Identity to Non-Identity; iii. Between Antithetical and Extinct: The Irish; Conclusion.

Chapter 2. 1882-1930: Truth and Myth, the Bushman and the Empire1. Truth and Myth: Mediation, Temporality, and Power; i. Authority and Authenticity; ii. Romance and Myth; 2. The Bushman and the Empire: Identity; i. The Radical Bushman; ii. The Imperial Bushman; iii. Displacement and Double Displacement; Conclusion; Chapter 3. 1930-1960: High Culture and Deferred Identities; 1. Ned Kelly and Australian Historiography; 2. Ned Kelly and High Culture; i. Douglas Stewart; ii. Sidney Nolan; 3. Deferred Identities; Conclusion; Chapter 4. 1960-1990: The Bushman Breaks Down.

1. Ned Kelly as Social Bandit and the Memory of British Imperialismi. Ned Kelly: Social Bandit; ii. Back to the "Present": Mediation and Power; iii. What's Missing?; 2. Law and Out-Law; 3. New Articulations of Gender and Sexuality; i. Ned Kelly: Herstory; ii. "Perfumed Ned was no Pansy"; Conclusion; Chapter 5. 1990-2010: Ned Kelly and the Global Nation; 1. Ned Kelly and the Memory Industry; i. Globalisation, Commodification, and Ned's Loss of Meaning; ii. Privatisation of the Nation; 2. Reconciliation, the "History Wars", and Ned Kelly post 9/11; i. Reconciliation; ii. The History Wars.

Iii. Ned Kelly post 9/11Conclusion; Conclusion; References; References without Author; Index.

Nineteenth-century outlaw Ned Kelly is perhaps Australia's most famous historical figure. This book explains the processes by which the cultural memory of Kelly has developed over time, and how it has related to negotiations of group identity. It breaks new grounds in memory studies by showing how memories are formed and develop through tangles of relations - memory dispositifs - and by furthering understanding of the relationships between cultural memory and national identity, at a time when matters of identity are more urgent than ever.

In English.

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