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 43
... invented people who didn't count, who could be punished by any means, to whom no rules except the purpose of 'proving our superiority' existed. In these acts we have the invention of a particularly Australian 'other'. This 'other' is an ...
... invented people who didn't count, who could be punished by any means, to whom no rules except the purpose of 'proving our superiority' existed. In these acts we have the invention of a particularly Australian 'other'. This 'other' is an ...
Seite 47
... invent a particularly located person who becomes the 'local', who, in turn, intimately brings to life the immediate location. While 'local' is a term that can carry the simple sense of being familiar with a place — 'knowing' a place ...
... invent a particularly located person who becomes the 'local', who, in turn, intimately brings to life the immediate location. While 'local' is a term that can carry the simple sense of being familiar with a place — 'knowing' a place ...
Seite 49
... invent for the present-day family members a historicised place and person: I become that history because I am from that ... invented person — 'the local' — comes to read a tourist leaflet. A pioneering family 'A Pioneering Family' is a ...
... invent for the present-day family members a historicised place and person: I become that history because I am from that ... invented person — 'the local' — comes to read a tourist leaflet. A pioneering family 'A Pioneering Family' is a ...
Seite 54
... inventing the 'local' as they arrive. So while both local and tourist travel, it is in opposite directions — or within opposite projects of becoming. The journeying to New England is written in my family history as a series of anecdotes ...
... inventing the 'local' as they arrive. So while both local and tourist travel, it is in opposite directions — or within opposite projects of becoming. The journeying to New England is written in my family history as a series of anecdotes ...
Seite 55
... invent subjects with claims to a real belonging. But theirs are not the only claims. Within such a small territory the competition for the inscribable surface is intense. We may be told that x and y explorer were discovering to the east ...
... invent subjects with claims to a real belonging. But theirs are not the only claims. Within such a small territory the competition for the inscribable surface is intense. We may be told that x and y explorer were discovering to the east ...
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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