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 23
... town in this wary, inexplicable nation. We can become open to what the past might do to us and how we know the past. Once we never thought to think of 'Australian History', as once we could not imagine the 'other side of the frontier ...
... town in this wary, inexplicable nation. We can become open to what the past might do to us and how we know the past. Once we never thought to think of 'Australian History', as once we could not imagine the 'other side of the frontier ...
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... town of Tenterfield in the New England region in northern New South Wales. At least that is how I can locate it for you on a road map. Closer to Glen Innes, you might be told it is on the Tenterfield Road; at Tenterfield, it is on the ...
... town of Tenterfield in the New England region in northern New South Wales. At least that is how I can locate it for you on a road map. Closer to Glen Innes, you might be told it is on the Tenterfield Road; at Tenterfield, it is on the ...
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... town. And on it goes. And so other histories become overshadowed and sometimes erased by this 'real' authoritative minutiae. I am interested in the way local family histories in general, and mine in particular, can be read as parallel ...
... town. And on it goes. And so other histories become overshadowed and sometimes erased by this 'real' authoritative minutiae. I am interested in the way local family histories in general, and mine in particular, can be read as parallel ...
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... town, relieved himself and gone on his way.19 These sorts of histories, when they are able to break out of their locality and circulate in a larger system, do challenge, undermine or at least multiply the versions of history available ...
... town, relieved himself and gone on his way.19 These sorts of histories, when they are able to break out of their locality and circulate in a larger system, do challenge, undermine or at least multiply the versions of history available ...
Seite 55
... town has its own story. But the individualising of towns is publicised, is circulated, while the private placements of Bridget's journey stay, to use a sinister expression, 'within the family'. The pioneers' journey always ends with ...
... town has its own story. But the individualising of towns is publicised, is circulated, while the private placements of Bridget's journey stay, to use a sinister expression, 'within the family'. The pioneers' journey always ends with ...
Inhalt
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20 | |
32 | |
47 | |
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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