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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... longer a ' locus or container ' : we are time.20 Whose family memorabilia gets to go in the local museum ? Who gets to make ' first settler ' claims ? Who is indisputably from the area ? History thus unfolds in the present , as imagined ...
... longer a ' locus or container ' : we are time.20 Whose family memorabilia gets to go in the local museum ? Who gets to make ' first settler ' claims ? Who is indisputably from the area ? History thus unfolds in the present , as imagined ...
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... longer than when it left . Finally this place called Australia was making productive sense . This sense was predicated upon two existing conditions : cheap convict labour and land ( pasture ) . Land that was already being used by ...
... longer than when it left . Finally this place called Australia was making productive sense . This sense was predicated upon two existing conditions : cheap convict labour and land ( pasture ) . Land that was already being used by ...
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... longer a shared virtue it has become an oppressive secret . By the time Heffernan says his piece in the 1940s it had become impossible to assume that everyone was against Aboriginal people or that you could rely on every non- Aboriginal ...
... longer a shared virtue it has become an oppressive secret . By the time Heffernan says his piece in the 1940s it had become impossible to assume that everyone was against Aboriginal people or that you could rely on every non- Aboriginal ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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