Undead ghosts: spectrality and the transgression of cultural norms

When on 30 December 2010, JASAL received a 'last will and testament' from Mudrooroo from Nepal-'Portrait of the Artist as a Sick Old Villain 'Me Yes I Am He the Villain': Reflections of a Bloke From Outside'-we were both energized and relieved. Coming as it did after a long self- and other-imposed silence, it was exciting to have one of the foremost theorists of Indigenous Australian writing enter the national conversation again.