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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... silence , amongst so many silences ? - I am ambivalent about silence . Its conditional nature is not easily expressed . Silence is so dependent upon its context for its meaning : here it is poignant mourning , there a pregnant pause .
... silence , amongst so many silences ? - I am ambivalent about silence . Its conditional nature is not easily expressed . Silence is so dependent upon its context for its meaning : here it is poignant mourning , there a pregnant pause .
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... silence be pedagogical ? The version of the massacre that this poem is asking us to monumentalise , to contemplate in silent attention , is quite different from the versions outlined in the tourist leaflet . It insists on Aboriginal ...
... silence be pedagogical ? The version of the massacre that this poem is asking us to monumentalise , to contemplate in silent attention , is quite different from the versions outlined in the tourist leaflet . It insists on Aboriginal ...
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... silence , as there is in Windeyer's diary . If I understand my position to be wholly stable , able to be simply listed and recorded , I will fail to articulate a sense of whiteness that continues within my volatile self . I understand ...
... silence , as there is in Windeyer's diary . If I understand my position to be wholly stable , able to be simply listed and recorded , I will fail to articulate a sense of whiteness that continues within my volatile self . I understand ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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