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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... strange . They all might seem inadequate , wrong or weird . But that is right . All of them become efforts to actively but gracefully cohabit with Bluff Rock . And finally Susan and I are on our last ' field trip ' . We have my two ...
... strange . They all might seem inadequate , wrong or weird . But that is right . All of them become efforts to actively but gracefully cohabit with Bluff Rock . And finally Susan and I are on our last ' field trip ' . We have my two ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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