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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... kangaroos : sheep have gargantuan appetites , and eat up to five times as much as a kangaroo ; they also crop down the grass so that kangaroos cannot get the grip they need they have a different jaw structure and need to tear at the ...
... kangaroos : sheep have gargantuan appetites , and eat up to five times as much as a kangaroo ; they also crop down the grass so that kangaroos cannot get the grip they need they have a different jaw structure and need to tear at the ...
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Autobiography of a Massacre Katrina Schlunke. guide suggested that sheep dislike feeding after kangaroos as much as cattle after sheep.36 Sheep were killed by Aboriginal people , but whether this was because they were destroying the ...
Autobiography of a Massacre Katrina Schlunke. guide suggested that sheep dislike feeding after kangaroos as much as cattle after sheep.36 Sheep were killed by Aboriginal people , but whether this was because they were destroying the ...
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... kangaroo was not fully grown , which was why it got caught in the fence it was too small to have got over cleanly and ... kangaroos . I am not equating the lives of animals and humans , but I am fascinated by the way that The Bluff Rock ...
... kangaroo was not fully grown , which was why it got caught in the fence it was too small to have got over cleanly and ... kangaroos . I am not equating the lives of animals and humans , but I am fascinated by the way that The Bluff Rock ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
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