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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... child grew up , and when dead , was buried at the foot of the Bluff . One might see the grave ; I found nothing ... child appealed to one of these killers , he ' saved ' the child . This same man , we assume , could not and did not wish ...
... child grew up , and when dead , was buried at the foot of the Bluff . One might see the grave ; I found nothing ... child appealed to one of these killers , he ' saved ' the child . This same man , we assume , could not and did not wish ...
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... Child whose name was to the Attorney - General unknown ' . This child had been identified by its rib bones , a jaw bone and some teeth . In Tales of Old Times : Early Australian Incident and Adventure ( 1903 ) , Chomley records Anderson ...
... Child whose name was to the Attorney - General unknown ' . This child had been identified by its rib bones , a jaw bone and some teeth . In Tales of Old Times : Early Australian Incident and Adventure ( 1903 ) , Chomley records Anderson ...
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... child function as another mirror of whiteness , where the saving of one child proves that it is still possible to claim that the white men were operating in a moral universe ? That they were punishing a group who had committed a ...
... child function as another mirror of whiteness , where the saving of one child proves that it is still possible to claim that the white men were operating in a moral universe ? That they were punishing a group who had committed a ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
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