Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a MassacreFremantle Arts Centre Press, 2005 - 268 páginas The past is a problem for us. We know certain events happened, sometimes exactly when and yet our sometimes longing for certainty cannot be satisfied . . . We tell stories about where we come from and so who we are. We change these stories sometimes minutely, sometimes radically depending upon our audiences and our task. Bluff Rockis organised around the key question- how do we know the past? Using historical material (letters, memoirs), a tourist brochure, and local histories, it focuses on the ways that the massacre(s) of Aborigines at Bluff Rock, in New England during the 1840s has been recorded and remembered. It is the author's ability to lay herself on the line that makes this a courageous and even controversial text. Schlunke, who grew up in New England area, takes this one story from early colonial Australia and looks at the many ways it is organised as a memory of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations. |
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... Aboriginal people . To attempt to track and kill Aboriginal people is now neither a new nor extraordinary event in quite the same way as it was two years before . Four people rather than the eight of the first recorded expedition set ...
... Aboriginal people . To attempt to track and kill Aboriginal people is now neither a new nor extraordinary event in quite the same way as it was two years before . Four people rather than the eight of the first recorded expedition set ...
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... Aboriginal fires and paths to return by . They have to learn Aboriginal techniques to pursue Aboriginal people . But simultaneously , the ' punishment ' , murder and pursuit of Aboriginal people is becoming a cultural motif of this tiny ...
... Aboriginal fires and paths to return by . They have to learn Aboriginal techniques to pursue Aboriginal people . But simultaneously , the ' punishment ' , murder and pursuit of Aboriginal people is becoming a cultural motif of this tiny ...
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... Aboriginal and non - Aboriginal , rather than black and white . Naturally , these temporary folds can't prevent the incessant spillage of naming . Within the boundaries of the term ' Aboriginal ' , do I include ' wild blacks ' and Tommy ...
... Aboriginal and non - Aboriginal , rather than black and white . Naturally , these temporary folds can't prevent the incessant spillage of naming . Within the boundaries of the term ' Aboriginal ' , do I include ' wild blacks ' and Tommy ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
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