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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... words , actions and psyches of our present . Katrina Schlunke's book achieves what many of us hope from cultural theory , that through an investigation of language , words and culture , we come to a questioning of history , politics and ...
... words , actions and psyches of our present . Katrina Schlunke's book achieves what many of us hope from cultural theory , that through an investigation of language , words and culture , we come to a questioning of history , politics and ...
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... words ( ' punishment ' ) and his boast ( ' proving superiority ' ) are an impossible fit - they are indeed ' simple ' words battling ' terrible ' deeds . Since Keating's account leaks into Irby's , it is difficult to read Irby's story ...
... words ( ' punishment ' ) and his boast ( ' proving superiority ' ) are an impossible fit - they are indeed ' simple ' words battling ' terrible ' deeds . Since Keating's account leaks into Irby's , it is difficult to read Irby's story ...
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... words of one of the Aboriginal Land Council workers : ' You just have to go up there ; the spirits are there . It's a bad place . ' And the words of the local farmer who owns the land the bluff is on ' It's rough country . ' The truth ...
... words of one of the Aboriginal Land Council workers : ' You just have to go up there ; the spirits are there . It's a bad place . ' And the words of the local farmer who owns the land the bluff is on ' It's rough country . ' The truth ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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