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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... head station is more or less in the middle of approximately 22,260 hectares and has four outstations spread around it , all about five kilometres out from the main station , there are circles of increasing and decreasing ' settlement ...
... head station is more or less in the middle of approximately 22,260 hectares and has four outstations spread around it , all about five kilometres out from the main station , there are circles of increasing and decreasing ' settlement ...
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... head station I draw a large , to - scale circle around the head station . The tip of my pencil runs beyond my sister and brother - in - law's property . They are within the field of possibility . This had not occurred to me . Smaller ...
... head station I draw a large , to - scale circle around the head station . The tip of my pencil runs beyond my sister and brother - in - law's property . They are within the field of possibility . This had not occurred to me . Smaller ...
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... head station to be simply abandoned to rot . Was it because of the smell , the risk of disease ? Or was it the simple aesthetics of order that would have been disrupted if these creatures had not been interred ? Although these burials ...
... head station to be simply abandoned to rot . Was it because of the smell , the risk of disease ? Or was it the simple aesthetics of order that would have been disrupted if these creatures had not been interred ? Although these burials ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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