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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... Edward and Leonard Irby . The holding , as you will remember , was called Bolivia . Edward Irby reports that he and others killed Aboriginal people , but the shape and meanings of those deaths are very different from the many local ...
... Edward and Leonard Irby . The holding , as you will remember , was called Bolivia . Edward Irby reports that he and others killed Aboriginal people , but the shape and meanings of those deaths are very different from the many local ...
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... Edward has ' undertaken to write all the sense , and given me the nonsense ' ( emphasis in original ) .79 Australian Men of Mark ( 1889 ) tells us that Edward had been training at the Military Academy in Woolwich when he was ' struck ...
... Edward has ' undertaken to write all the sense , and given me the nonsense ' ( emphasis in original ) .79 Australian Men of Mark ( 1889 ) tells us that Edward had been training at the Military Academy in Woolwich when he was ' struck ...
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... Edward and Leonard Irby , Sydney : William Brooks & Co. , pp . 88-9 . 125 Victor Windeyer , in his pamphlet , identifies this property as ' Wallibah ' but seems to be using the same diary source which identified it to me as ' Juandah ...
... Edward and Leonard Irby , Sydney : William Brooks & Co. , pp . 88-9 . 125 Victor Windeyer , in his pamphlet , identifies this property as ' Wallibah ' but seems to be using the same diary source which identified it to me as ' Juandah ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
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