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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... sitting on the bank of the river near his hut one morning early washing his shirt a black fellow sneaked up behind him and hit him on the hed with a nula nula , a short stick with a nob on the end of it ( last eight words added in above ...
... sitting on the bank of the river near his hut one morning early washing his shirt a black fellow sneaked up behind him and hit him on the hed with a nula nula , a short stick with a nob on the end of it ( last eight words added in above ...
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... sitting on my single bed in a pub with a six foot barbed wire - topped fence surrounding the beer garden , which is the only open area . We have passed various groups of Aboriginal people on the roads but there are none in the pub . On ...
... sitting on my single bed in a pub with a six foot barbed wire - topped fence surrounding the beer garden , which is the only open area . We have passed various groups of Aboriginal people on the roads but there are none in the pub . On ...
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... sit and write in a world removed from others . I drink quietly on my verandah . I can list what I do . I can show you my bank account . Windeyer has left me a way of life . The ordering and the recording , the white patterning , are all ...
... sit and write in a world removed from others . I drink quietly on my verandah . I can list what I do . I can show you my bank account . Windeyer has left me a way of life . The ordering and the recording , the white patterning , are all ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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