Passionate histories : myth, memory and Indigenous Australia / edited by Frances Peters-Little, Ann Curthoys and John Docker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peters-Little, Frances, 1958- editor.

Curthoys, Ann, editor.

Docker, John, editor.

Series:

Aboriginal history monograph series ; no. 21.

Aboriginal history monograph ; number 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--History.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.

Mythology, Aboriginal Australian.

Australia--History.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 324 pages) : illustrations (some colour)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra : ANU E Press & Aboriginal History Inc., [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines the emotional engagements of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people with Indigenous history.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781921666650

192166665X

OCLC:

650499907

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459436

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access Open access