Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a MassacreFremantle Arts Centre Press, 2005 - 268 sidor 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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... bodies of children . But perhaps he was meaning ' throw ' in a more general sense — perhaps the bodies were rolled off the top . Why not pushed ? Is it simply the embroidery to make a ' better ' tale ? To make incomprehensible monsters ...
... bodies of children . But perhaps he was meaning ' throw ' in a more general sense — perhaps the bodies were rolled off the top . Why not pushed ? Is it simply the embroidery to make a ' better ' tale ? To make incomprehensible monsters ...
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... bodies . At such musters , work and rations were detailed and the convicts were released until the next muster . The muster was also the site around which resistance was organised : escaping convicts would have maximised their success ...
... bodies . At such musters , work and rations were detailed and the convicts were released until the next muster . The muster was also the site around which resistance was organised : escaping convicts would have maximised their success ...
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... Bodies of knowledge , bodies that hurt , and administrative bodies reveal the spectral selves that write into current flesh in a weird arrangement that produces ' now ' . The comfort of the historicised past is disturbed by the fleshy ...
... Bodies of knowledge , bodies that hurt , and administrative bodies reveal the spectral selves that write into current flesh in a weird arrangement that produces ' now ' . The comfort of the historicised past is disturbed by the fleshy ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
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