Passionate histories : myth, memory and Indigenous Australia / / edited by Frances Peters-Little, Ann Curthoys and John Docker
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| Titolo: |
Passionate histories : myth, memory and Indigenous Australia / / edited by Frances Peters-Little, Ann Curthoys and John Docker
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| Pubblicazione: | Canberra : , : ANU E Press & Aboriginal History Inc., , [2010] |
| ©2010 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 324 pages) : illustrations (some colour) |
| Disciplina: | 994.0049915 |
| Soggetto topico: | Aboriginal Australians - History |
| Aboriginal Australians - Social life and customs | |
| Mythology, Aboriginal Australian | |
| History - Theory and criticism | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Australia History |
| Persona (resp. second.): | Peters-LittleFrances <1958-> |
| CurthoysAnn | |
| DockerJohn | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preliminary; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part one: massacres; 1. The country has another past: Queensland and the History Wars. Raymond Evans.; 2. 'Hard evidence': the debate about massacre in the Black War in Tasmania. Lyndall Ryan; 3. Epistemological vertigo and allegory: thoughts on massacres, actual, surrogate, and averted - Beersheba, Wake in Fright, Australia. John Docker.; Part two: myths; 4. Remembering the referendum with compassion. Frances Peters-Little; 5. Idle men: the eighteenth-century roots of the Indigenous indolence myth. Shino Konishi |
| 6. '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.7. Demythologising Flynn, with Love: contesting missionaries in Central Australia in the twentieth century. David Trudinger.; Part three: memory and oral history; 8. Paul Robeson's visit to Australia and Aboriginal activism, 1960. Ann Curthoys; 9. Using poetry to capture the Aboriginal voice in oral history transcripts. Lorina Barker.; Part four: identity, myth and memory | |
| 10. Making a debut: myths, memories and mimesis. Anna Cole.11. Identity and identification: Aboriginality from the Spanish Civil War to the French Ghettos. Vanessa Castejon.; 12. Urban Aboriginal ceremony: when seeing is not believing. Kristina Everett; 13. 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; 14. Reconciliation without history: state crime and state punishment in Chile and Australia. Peter Read. | |
| 15. Overheard - conversations of a museum curator. Jay Arthur, Barbara Paulson and Troy Pickwick.16. On the significance of saying 'sorry': Apology and reconciliation in Australia. Isabelle Auguste. | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book examines the emotional engagements of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people with Indigenous history. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Passionate histories |
| ISBN: | 1-921666-65-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910137636903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Aboriginal history monograph series ; ; no. 21.