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 15
... particular, writing a particular past, and someone else in particular creates pasts from that writing. We know we can never know all the conditions that make a particular past possible. Here the spectral 'I' of autobiography offers what ...
... particular, writing a particular past, and someone else in particular creates pasts from that writing. We know we can never know all the conditions that make a particular past possible. Here the spectral 'I' of autobiography offers what ...
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... , and attempting a model of what writing a history might look like if it were constantly concerned with how the writer was able to write, and how that writing came into a particular form at a particular time. I want 16.
... , and attempting a model of what writing a history might look like if it were constantly concerned with how the writer was able to write, and how that writing came into a particular form at a particular time. I want 16.
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Katrina Schlunke. into a particular form at a particular time. I want to make those productions obvious within what is written, which necessarily questions the idea that anything as straightforward as a 'past' history exists. Using a ...
Katrina Schlunke. into a particular form at a particular time. I want to make those productions obvious within what is written, which necessarily questions the idea that anything as straightforward as a 'past' history exists. Using a ...
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... particular difficulty of seeing massacre as untouchable horror when the perpetrators are white like me. I have an investment in knowing them so that I might know myself. And that, I think, is to thicken the description, not diminish it ...
... particular difficulty of seeing massacre as untouchable horror when the perpetrators are white like me. I have an investment in knowing them so that I might know myself. And that, I think, is to thicken the description, not diminish it ...
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... 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 come to terms with its power. One of the first white men to own the bluff ...
... 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 come to terms with its power. One of the first white men to own the bluff ...
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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