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Persistence of Vision: Memory, Migration, and Citizenship – Free Trade or the Failure of Cross-Culturality?

From: From Subjects to Citizens

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Persistence of vision is all about the eye, the way it follows a film, remembers an image, holds on to it, until the next one appears to replace it, so that we are never conscious of the stutter of frames – the space between. Image after image flows past us leaving ghostly fingerprints on shell-shocked retinas. Our mind races, slower than light, and we see through the past into the present, just as that present no longer exists. And so we imagine the future.

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Gerry Turcotte

Gerry Turcotte is currently Head of the School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages at the University of Wollongong. He is Past President of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ), Past Secretary of the International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS) and Founding Director of the Centre for Canadian-Australian Studies (CCAS). He is the author and editor of numerous publications including Jack Davis: The Maker of History (1994), Neighbourhood of Memory (1990), Writers in Action (1990), Masks, Tapestries, Journeys (1996) and Canada-Australia: Towards a Second Century of Partnership with Kate Burridge and Lois Foster (1997). His most recent publications are a co-edited text entitled Compr(om)ising Post/colonialisms: Challenging Narratives & Practices, with Greg Ratcliffe (2001) and Winterlude (2002). His novel, Flying in Silence (2001), was published in Canada and in Australia and was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year in 2001. He is the winner of the 2000 OCTAL/Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning and an inaugural winner of the 2001 New South Wales Government/ CE Teaching Excellence Award.