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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... murder of a watchman by the Blacks . [ The party organised to pursue the Aboriginal group gathers . ] ... five of them [ the ' party ' ] , besides the blackboy .. Heard that the Blacks had been seen on the ranges close to Bolivia ...
... murder of a watchman by the Blacks . [ The party organised to pursue the Aboriginal group gathers . ] ... five of them [ the ' party ' ] , besides the blackboy .. Heard that the Blacks had been seen on the ranges close to Bolivia ...
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... murder is produced through words and thinking that depend , perhaps unexpectedly , upon ambivalence . The murder of Aboriginal people insists upon an immediate grappling with the colonial world , with its language , its culture - how ...
... murder is produced through words and thinking that depend , perhaps unexpectedly , upon ambivalence . The murder of Aboriginal people insists upon an immediate grappling with the colonial world , with its language , its culture - how ...
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... murders as part of an ' ordinary ' life . Irby's existence as son , flute player , squatter and murderer is performed both continuously and simultaneously . The murderer is a murderer is a murderer is a ... We all now know that murder ...
... murders as part of an ' ordinary ' life . Irby's existence as son , flute player , squatter and murderer is performed both continuously and simultaneously . The murderer is a murderer is a murderer is a ... We all now know that murder ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
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