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Constructions of colonialism : perspectives on Eliza Fraser's shipwreck / edited by Ian J. McNiven, Lynette Russell, and Kay Schaffer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shipwrecks--Australia--Queensland.
- Shipwrecks.
- Fraser, Eliza Anne.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- One of the most famous shipwreck sagas of the 19th century took place on the tropical coast of north-east Australia. In 1836 ""The Stirling Castle"" was wrecked off the Queensland coast and many of the crew, together with the captain's wife, Eliza Fraser, were marooned on Fraser Island and held captive by Aboriginal people. Early accounts represent Mrs Fraser as an innocent white victim of colonialism and her Aboriginal captors as barbarous savages. These narratives of the white woman and her Aboriginal ""captors"" impacted significantly on England and the politics of Empire at an early stage
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1 Historical Representations; 1 Eliza Fraser: an historical record; 2 K'gari, Mrs Fraser and Butchulla oral tradition; 3 Shipwreck saga as archaeological text: reconstructing Fraser Island's Aboriginal past; 4 'Mere trifles and faint representations': the representations of savage life offered by Eliza Fraser; 5 'Our fair narrator' down-under: Mrs Fraser's body and the preservation of the Empire; Part 2 Modern Representations; 6 'We are like Eliza': twentieth-century Australian responses to the Eliza Fraser saga
- 7 Home ground and foreign territory: the works of Fiona Foley and Sidney Nolan8 No woman is an island: the Eliza Fraser variations; 9 From Eliza to Elisabeth: Andre Brink's version of the Eliza Fraser story; 10 'Fears of primitive otherness': 'race' in Michael Ondaatje's the man with seven toes; 11 Barbara's Eliza; 12 A blast from the past; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-182) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611297879
- 9781281297877
- 1281297879
- 9781847142559
- 1847142559
- OCLC:
- 568479069
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