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 16
... look carefully at the stories from the past, some of which are called 'official history' and some of which are called gossip, we see that all stories are personal, while showing that all writing is personal. We see these stories are ...
... look carefully at the stories from the past, some of which are called 'official history' and some of which are called gossip, we see that all stories are personal, while showing that all writing is personal. We see these stories are ...
Seite 20
... looks the perfect cliff. A cliff that rain and wind and hard New England winters of cracking cold have made inhumanly smooth. Nothing and no one to grip. It is as if over those trees and scrub a giant hand has forced a massive sheet of ...
... looks the perfect cliff. A cliff that rain and wind and hard New England winters of cracking cold have made inhumanly smooth. Nothing and no one to grip. It is as if over those trees and scrub a giant hand has forced a massive sheet of ...
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... look at it for as long as we like — and as we like, some of us, with our particular fears and our particular prejudices — we can exaggerate its stillness and try to stay it with language. We drag out names and stories in an effort to ...
... look at it for as long as we like — and as we like, some of us, with our particular fears and our particular prejudices — we can exaggerate its stillness and try to stay it with language. We drag out names and stories in an effort to ...
Seite 35
... look at what these 'simple' words do. Do they create a new kind of tourist? Tourists who are both initiated into and unavoidably implicated in a past they have not seen before? A visitor's information 'The truth of that day remains ...
... look at what these 'simple' words do. Do they create a new kind of tourist? Tourists who are both initiated into and unavoidably implicated in a past they have not seen before? A visitor's information 'The truth of that day remains ...
Seite 38
... look at the rock, but it also serves a number of other functions. Keating's story as recounted in the tourist leaflet depicts an extermination that is viciously complete. Aboriginal presence is responded to with a colonial power so ...
... look at the rock, but it also serves a number of other functions. Keating's story as recounted in the tourist leaflet depicts an extermination that is viciously complete. Aboriginal presence is responded to with a colonial power so ...
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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