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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Peters-Little, Frances, 1958- (-), Curthoys, Ann, Docker, John
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press 2010.
Colección:Open Research Library ebooks.
Aboriginal history monograph ; no. 21.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45868311*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.