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 11
... events happened in the past, sometimes exactly when, but we will never know precisely why and how something happened. And yet we shape ourselves through how we think about the past. We tell stories about where we come from and who we ...
... events happened in the past, sometimes exactly when, but we will never know precisely why and how something happened. And yet we shape ourselves through how we think about the past. We tell stories about where we come from and who we ...
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... event. I want to show you how many ways a massacre of Aboriginal people can be told and used and reoriented. I 'knew ... event? My suggestion is that this is precisely the way to speak, write and embody the presence of the past. For this ...
... event. I want to show you how many ways a massacre of Aboriginal people can be told and used and reoriented. I 'knew ... event? My suggestion is that this is precisely the way to speak, write and embody the presence of the past. For this ...
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... events create the possibility of an ethical, embodied relationship with the past, not a final story. It is in displaying the relationship between 'selves', time and writer/ reader that we assemble the possibilities of the past in the ...
... events create the possibility of an ethical, embodied relationship with the past, not a final story. It is in displaying the relationship between 'selves', time and writer/ reader that we assemble the possibilities of the past in the ...
Seite 17
... events come to be lived out in people and places who are simultaneously past and present and re-emerging. But an ... event both becomes and exceeds its invention. This sort of narrative disorder also has a childhood echo. An order ...
... events come to be lived out in people and places who are simultaneously past and present and re-emerging. But an ... event both becomes and exceeds its invention. This sort of narrative disorder also has a childhood echo. An order ...
Seite 22
... unveiled in 2001. This event was seen as 'an act of reconciliation, and a recognition of history'.6 But this is not 'just' a local history. Each time a different version of 'The Bluff Rock Massacre' appears, each time it 22.
... unveiled in 2001. This event was seen as 'an act of reconciliation, and a recognition of history'.6 But this is not 'just' a local history. Each time a different version of 'The Bluff Rock Massacre' appears, each time it 22.
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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