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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... sort of glee , families of course , children slightly dragging , pleased parents : ' I can afford to give my kids this at least . ' We go into the bright pink palace and are flooded by Meaghan Morris Land . Is the motel hiding its ...
... sort of glee , families of course , children slightly dragging , pleased parents : ' I can afford to give my kids this at least . ' We go into the bright pink palace and are flooded by Meaghan Morris Land . Is the motel hiding its ...
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... sort of death that invents martyrs , people who die for their beliefs rather than simply because they are ' Aborigines ' , as the non- Aboriginals ( of that time ) may have wanted to imagine them . It is fairly easy to track the ...
... sort of death that invents martyrs , people who die for their beliefs rather than simply because they are ' Aborigines ' , as the non- Aboriginals ( of that time ) may have wanted to imagine them . It is fairly easy to track the ...
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... sort of lived ( or written ) momentum . What does it mean to say that Irby was a particular sort of colonial who killed a particular sort of Aboriginal person ? Is this the horror of a ' cultural studies ' ( ? ) , postmodern ...
... sort of lived ( or written ) momentum . What does it mean to say that Irby was a particular sort of colonial who killed a particular sort of Aboriginal person ? Is this the horror of a ' cultural studies ' ( ? ) , postmodern ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
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