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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... green of a country - lifed Britain . This imposed seasonality had its moral equivalent . I learnt to do the right thing . Sunday school taught these lessons well . Displays of moral courage were particularly fine if they included some ...
... green of a country - lifed Britain . This imposed seasonality had its moral equivalent . I learnt to do the right thing . Sunday school taught these lessons well . Displays of moral courage were particularly fine if they included some ...
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... green ; the Irbys too would have been turning brown , that sun and wind beaten brown of arms and face . A working man's tan ! Even the ability to appreciate the beauty of the rough country of the station , the wild places , is curtailed ...
... green ; the Irbys too would have been turning brown , that sun and wind beaten brown of arms and face . A working man's tan ! Even the ability to appreciate the beauty of the rough country of the station , the wild places , is curtailed ...
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... Green & Longmans , p . 130 . 26 Butlin , NG ( 1994 ) Forming a Colonial Economy : Australia 1810-1850s , Melbourne : Cambridge University Press , p . 216 . 27 Blacklock , A ( 1841 ) A Treatise on Sheep ( with Remarks on the Management ...
... Green & Longmans , p . 130 . 26 Butlin , NG ( 1994 ) Forming a Colonial Economy : Australia 1810-1850s , Melbourne : Cambridge University Press , p . 216 . 27 Blacklock , A ( 1841 ) A Treatise on Sheep ( with Remarks on the Management ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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