Bluff RockFremantle Press, 01.01.2005 - 268 Seiten "The past is a problem for us. We know certain events happened, sometimes exactly when and yet our longing for certainty cannot be satisfied ... we tell stories about where we come from and who we are. We change these stories sometimes minutely, sometimes radically ... This is an original and courageous book. Schlunke, who grew up in the New England area, takes this one story — the massacre(s) of Aborigines at Bluff Rock, in New England during the 1840s — and looks at the many ways it is organised as a memory of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations. Schlunke breaks new ground as she probes the 'hidden histories' of Indigenous-settler encounters and addresses herself urgently to the problems of 'history' in Australia." |
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Seite 8
... child The top hat Tragedy Practical demoniacs A word from the government The local poet 11 11 19 23 29 29 32 33 38 43 45 52 56 59 59 61 63 69 71 75 78 80 81 86 89 90 99 100 104 111 112 116 122 123 MR IRBY ACCOUNTS Memoirs of massacre ...
... child The top hat Tragedy Practical demoniacs A word from the government The local poet 11 11 19 23 29 29 32 33 38 43 45 52 56 59 59 61 63 69 71 75 78 80 81 86 89 90 99 100 104 111 112 116 122 123 MR IRBY ACCOUNTS Memoirs of massacre ...
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... child's fascination with dinosaurs in this. How could something so big, so powerful, not be here now? How could a whole people, a whole way of life, not be here now? Everything I learnt and was told about Aboriginal people confirmed the ...
... child's fascination with dinosaurs in this. How could something so big, so powerful, not be here now? How could a whole people, a whole way of life, not be here now? Everything I learnt and was told about Aboriginal people confirmed the ...
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... child, but that is to not know massacre at all. This isn't a complaint about knowing too little — I always knew, but I also always knew how to know. But I want to unknit how we know something, I want to unravel how stories can both fix ...
... child, but that is to not know massacre at all. This isn't a complaint about knowing too little — I always knew, but I also always knew how to know. But I want to unknit how we know something, I want to unravel how stories can both fix ...
Seite 20
... child. It watches and it waits. The scrubby grey of bush around it, and even the bare, plundered hills about it, do not soften its massive, protruding power in this mostly modest, mostly domesticated NSW Northern Tablelands landscape ...
... child. It watches and it waits. The scrubby grey of bush around it, and even the bare, plundered hills about it, do not soften its massive, protruding power in this mostly modest, mostly domesticated NSW Northern Tablelands landscape ...
Seite 40
... children. But perhaps he was meaning 'throw' in a more general sense — perhaps the bodies were rolled off the top. Why not pushed? Is it simply the embroidery to make a 'better' tale? To make incomprehensible monsters of the colonists ...
... children. But perhaps he was meaning 'throw' in a more general sense — perhaps the bodies were rolled off the top. Why not pushed? Is it simply the embroidery to make a 'better' tale? To make incomprehensible monsters of the colonists ...
Inhalt
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WHAT KEATING HEARD | 64 |
LOCAL KNOWHOW | 104 |
MR IRBY ACCOUNTS | 141 |
HORSES AND DEATH | 196 |
THE DISAPPEARING
WINDEYER | 221 |
MAKING ENDS MEET | 248 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 257 |
NOTES | 259 |
REFERENCES AND WORKS CITED | 267 |
INDEX | 270 |
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