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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... asked many of them about the massacre as a part of those interviews.4 And sometime in the 1970s , a local historian put together the pieces of historical evidence of Irby and Keating and produced a tourist leaflet about the massacre.5 ...
... asked many of them about the massacre as a part of those interviews.4 And sometime in the 1970s , a local historian put together the pieces of historical evidence of Irby and Keating and produced a tourist leaflet about the massacre.5 ...
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... asked if I was born there and , given my New England mythology , I used to find that highly insulting . A German ... asking if I was an immigrant , this created a peculiar relationship with a then divided region that I had never visited ...
... asked if I was born there and , given my New England mythology , I used to find that highly insulting . A German ... asking if I was an immigrant , this created a peculiar relationship with a then divided region that I had never visited ...
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... asked . He was not at the massacre but he was asked , because he was from the place , he was there . Going there If ethnography is concerned with cultures and the study thereof , then the concentration on the particular and the ...
... asked . He was not at the massacre but he was asked , because he was from the place , he was there . Going there If ethnography is concerned with cultures and the study thereof , then the concentration on the particular and the ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
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