Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a MassacreFremantle Arts Centre Press, 2005 - 268 Seiten The past is a problem for us. We know certain events happened, sometimes exactly when and yet our sometimes longing for certainty cannot be satisfied . . . We tell stories about where we come from and so who we are. We change these stories sometimes minutely, sometimes radically depending upon our audiences and our task. Bluff Rockis organised around the key question- how do we know the past? Using historical material (letters, memoirs), a tourist brochure, and local histories, it focuses on the ways that the massacre(s) of Aborigines at Bluff Rock, in New England during the 1840s has been recorded and remembered. It is the author's ability to lay herself on the line that makes this a courageous and even controversial text. Schlunke, who grew up in New England area, takes this one story from early colonial Australia and looks at the many ways it is organised as a memory of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations. |
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... begin an engagement with the multiple ways in which Irby writes himself the always ? never ? not quite ? sometime ? massacrer . — - now The Irbys ' account begins with their sail to Australia , but I concentrate on their records from ...
... begin an engagement with the multiple ways in which Irby writes himself the always ? never ? not quite ? sometime ? massacrer . — - now The Irbys ' account begins with their sail to Australia , but I concentrate on their records from ...
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... begins to record that strategies and ruses are at least being tried by his party . They don't work , but there is a realisation that simple pursuit rarely rewards them ; they are being outmanoeuvred , and end up using Aboriginal fires ...
... begins to record that strategies and ruses are at least being tried by his party . They don't work , but there is a realisation that simple pursuit rarely rewards them ; they are being outmanoeuvred , and end up using Aboriginal fires ...
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... begins as an Englishman with an unsteady seat who stays well away from those with a convict past , and ends up deeply soaked in convictism , ' Blacks ' , rural society and ' Australia ' . And did he really begin simply as an Englishman ...
... begins as an Englishman with an unsteady seat who stays well away from those with a convict past , and ends up deeply soaked in convictism , ' Blacks ' , rural society and ' Australia ' . And did he really begin simply as an Englishman ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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