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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... present. Katrina Schlunke's book achieves what many of us hope from cultural theory, that through an investigation of language, words and culture, we come to a questioning of history, politics and the treacherous relationship between ...
... present. Katrina Schlunke's book achieves what many of us hope from cultural theory, that through an investigation of language, words and culture, we come to a questioning of history, politics and the treacherous relationship between ...
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... present, and make a space where the past is a becoming now. The possibilities of what it will become for you and me can be felt, fought over and even momentarily finalised, but the past itself can never be completed — it is neither a ...
... present, and make a space where the past is a becoming now. The possibilities of what it will become for you and me can be felt, fought over and even momentarily finalised, but the past itself can never be completed — it is neither a ...
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... present and re-emerging. But an important part of creating this historical production is the confrontation with narrative itself. To avoid the threat of 'resolution' that narrative has, I have chosen excess. Narratives of narratives ...
... present and re-emerging. But an important part of creating this historical production is the confrontation with narrative itself. To avoid the threat of 'resolution' that narrative has, I have chosen excess. Narratives of narratives ...
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... present. We are not what we were, and we cannot predict what we will become. As new ways of being open to us, so new ways of knowing become available, and these possibilities happen to us here and now, in this small country town in this ...
... present. We are not what we were, and we cannot predict what we will become. As new ways of being open to us, so new ways of knowing become available, and these possibilities happen to us here and now, in this small country town in this ...
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... past that we cannot change. The past is not allowed to creep into the present. You can prove the impenetrability of the colonial past by looking at the silent bluff. Perhaps Keating's story also disavows the authenticity 38.
... past that we cannot change. The past is not allowed to creep into the present. You can prove the impenetrability of the colonial past by looking at the silent bluff. Perhaps Keating's story also disavows the authenticity 38.
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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