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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... leave the knowledge that a massacre occurred is enough . That the proper way of respecting that act is to leave it as a single horror which can never be understood and should not be able to be understood ... and I should be clear that I ...
... leave the knowledge that a massacre occurred is enough . That the proper way of respecting that act is to leave it as a single horror which can never be understood and should not be able to be understood ... and I should be clear that I ...
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... leave this unhealable thing . When there is a rent in the landscape and when that rent doesn't seem to breathe or move , and we can look at it for as long as we like and as we like , some of us , with our par- ticular fears and our ...
... leave this unhealable thing . When there is a rent in the landscape and when that rent doesn't seem to breathe or move , and we can look at it for as long as we like and as we like , some of us , with our par- ticular fears and our ...
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... leave . With that , the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs , and the herd of about two thousand pigs charged down the cliff and into the lake , and there they were drowned.65 This parable , when mapped onto the geography of ...
... leave . With that , the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs , and the herd of about two thousand pigs charged down the cliff and into the lake , and there they were drowned.65 This parable , when mapped onto the geography of ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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