ABSTRACT
In 1984, artist Krim Benterrak, a Moroccan Berber resident in Australia since 1977, white Australian academic Stephen Muecke, and Aboriginal Australian Paddy Roe published Reading the Country: Introduction to Nomadology, dedicating the volume “To the/nomads of Broome, always there and/always on the move”.1 Movement sets the course of the book. Hearing Aborigine Paddy Roe’s expression for the production of Aboriginal culture, “We must make these things move”, Muecke “reflect[s] on the potentially static nature of our project: the production of a white man’s artifact, a book” and asks himself, “How could I make this thing move?” (RC 26).
