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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... Land, God and longing Placing an end Writing up Conclusion And finally And then ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NOTES REFERENCES AND WORKS CITED INDEX 135 136 138 174 183 189 189 193 196 199 206 209 213 214 215 222 223 232 234 239 239 241 242 243 245 ...
... Land, God and longing Placing an end Writing up Conclusion And finally And then ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NOTES REFERENCES AND WORKS CITED INDEX 135 136 138 174 183 189 189 193 196 199 206 209 213 214 215 222 223 232 234 239 239 241 242 243 245 ...
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... land in Australia. I learnt this in New England, where I was born, as I learnt to walk. It seems that it was never a shock. I have no memory of a single revelatory moment. I don't know exactly how I knew, but I did. The stories of 'The ...
... land in Australia. I learnt this in New England, where I was born, as I learnt to walk. It seems that it was never a shock. I have no memory of a single revelatory moment. I don't know exactly how I knew, but I did. The stories of 'The ...
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... land. Our land. It was an enchanted place: it was an imaginary battlefield, it was a place to find baby birds and to practise self-dares of travel across the paddocks from home. It was space to escape into and hide within — it promised ...
... land. Our land. It was an enchanted place: it was an imaginary battlefield, it was a place to find baby birds and to practise self-dares of travel across the paddocks from home. It was space to escape into and hide within — it promised ...
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... land itself didn't quite correspond to the utter green of a country-lifed Britain. This imposed seasonality had its ... land and people. I didn't know to ask how some of their land had become our farm. I began this book with the desire ...
... land itself didn't quite correspond to the utter green of a country-lifed Britain. This imposed seasonality had its ... land and people. I didn't know to ask how some of their land had become our farm. I began this book with the desire ...
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... land, and put together they tell of something more. A message. A strange angel. 'The Bluff Rock Massacre' is a myth, is a fact, is a tourist attraction, is a national metaphor, is a ...? Here is a short history. In 1842, Edward Irby and ...
... land, and put together they tell of something more. A message. A strange angel. 'The Bluff Rock Massacre' is a myth, is a fact, is a tourist attraction, is a national metaphor, is a ...? Here is a short history. In 1842, Edward Irby and ...
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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