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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... Once we never thought to think of ' Australian History ' , as once we could not imagine the ' other side of the frontier ' , but now we might wonder more intricately and intimately about our own backyards , and our own selves becoming ...
... Once we never thought to think of ' Australian History ' , as once we could not imagine the ' other side of the frontier ' , but now we might wonder more intricately and intimately about our own backyards , and our own selves becoming ...
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... once said , ' He can be cruel sometimes . ' She was highly strung , I heard . She had a face like a pansy . Soft . There were only eight kilometres of paddocks between us . I heard about the man who came too close . He taught dancing to ...
... once said , ' He can be cruel sometimes . ' She was highly strung , I heard . She had a face like a pansy . Soft . There were only eight kilometres of paddocks between us . I heard about the man who came too close . He taught dancing to ...
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... once have construed as simply the wrong end of town . Run - down cottages and paddocks of mixed cow breeds , once sure signs of the disorder of poverty , became quaint and scenic , the inhabitants safe and unrecognisable . We did things ...
... once have construed as simply the wrong end of town . Run - down cottages and paddocks of mixed cow breeds , once sure signs of the disorder of poverty , became quaint and scenic , the inhabitants safe and unrecognisable . We did things ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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