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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... happened in the past , sometimes exactly when , but we will never know precisely why and how something happened . And yet we shape ourselves through how we think about the past . We tell stories about where we come from and who we are ...
... happened in the past , sometimes exactly when , but we will never know precisely why and how something happened . And yet we shape ourselves through how we think about the past . We tell stories about where we come from and who we are ...
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... happened ' back then ' , but it was also ' we ' who did it . This produces in turn the idea that anything that happened in the area is somehow knowable and explainable , and the idea that nothing is ever quite extraordinary enough to ...
... happened ' back then ' , but it was also ' we ' who did it . This produces in turn the idea that anything that happened in the area is somehow knowable and explainable , and the idea that nothing is ever quite extraordinary enough to ...
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... happened on Bolivia , around Tenterfield , near Glen Innes that is , what happened at ' home ' you discover connective tissue of such detail and seeming pettiness that mine ( and now your ) entwining with these events becomes unbearable ...
... happened on Bolivia , around Tenterfield , near Glen Innes that is , what happened at ' home ' you discover connective tissue of such detail and seeming pettiness that mine ( and now your ) entwining with these events becomes unbearable ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
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