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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... fire would have been the successive snapping of spears and hacking apart of baskets , but they put all into one big fire . Irby doesn't record whether or not ' souvenirs ' were taken . Did they make the burning of the camp of about 100 ...
... fire would have been the successive snapping of spears and hacking apart of baskets , but they put all into one big fire . Irby doesn't record whether or not ' souvenirs ' were taken . Did they make the burning of the camp of about 100 ...
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... fire which was rising from the range at the back of our bullocks ' swamp Before we had proceeded many yards further , heard some Blacks close to us [ Irby et al . are seen , and the Aboriginal group flee except for two little boys ] ...
... fire which was rising from the range at the back of our bullocks ' swamp Before we had proceeded many yards further , heard some Blacks close to us [ Irby et al . are seen , and the Aboriginal group flee except for two little boys ] ...
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... fire that night . The further actions and the further deaths seem to point to an escalation of conflict . It is ... fires and paths to return by . They have to learn Aboriginal techniques to pursue Aboriginal people . But simultaneously ...
... fire that night . The further actions and the further deaths seem to point to an escalation of conflict . It is ... fires and paths to return by . They have to learn Aboriginal techniques to pursue Aboriginal people . But simultaneously ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
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