Passionate histories myth, memory and Indigenous Australia
"This book examines the emotional engagements of both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous people with Indigenous history. The contributors are a mix of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous scholars, who in different ways examine how the past lives on in the present, as myth, memory, and history. Each chapte...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Acton, A.C.T. :
ANU E Press
2010.
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| Colección: | JSTOR Open Access monographs.
Aboriginal history monograph ; no. 21. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34948764*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part One: Massacres. The country has another past: Queensland and the History Wars / Raymond Evans
- 'Hard evidence': the debate about massacre in the Black War in Tasmania / Lyndall Ryan
- Epistemological vertigo and allegory: thoughts on massacres, actual, surrogate, and averted
- Beersheba, Wake in Fright, Australia / John Docker
- Part Two: Myths. Remembering the referendum with compassion / Frances Peters-Little
- Idle men: the eighteenth-century roots of the Indigenous indolence myth / Shino Konishi
- 'These unoffending people': myth, history and the idea of Aboriginal resistance in David Collins' Account of the English Colony in New South Wales / Rachel Standfield
- Demythologising Flynn, with Love: contesting missionaries in Central Australia in the twentieth century / David Trudinger
- Part Three: Memory and Oral History. Paul Robeson's visit to Australia and Aboriginal activism, 1960 / Ann Curthoys
- Using poetry to capture the Aboriginal voice in oral history transcripts / Lorina Barker
- Part Four: Identity, Myth and Memory. Making a debut: myths, memories and mimesis Anna Cole
- Identity and identification: Aboriginality from the Spanish Civil War to the French Ghettos Vanessa Castejon
- Urban Aboriginal ceremony: when seeing is not believing Kristina Everett
- Island Home Country: working with Aboriginal protocols in a documentary film about colonisation and growing up white in Tasmania / Jeni Thornley
- Part Five: The Stolen Generations. Reconciliation without history: state crime and state punishment in Chile and Australia / Peter Read
- Overheard
- conversations of a museum curator / Jay Arthur, with Barbara Paulson and Troy Pickwick
- On the significance of saying 'sorry': Apology and reconciliation in Australia / Isabelle Auguste.
