Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a MassacreThe past is a problem for us. We know certain events happened, sometimes exactly when and yet our sometimes longing for certainty cannot be satisfied . . . We tell stories about where we come from and so who we are. We change these stories sometimes minutely, sometimes radically depending upon our audiences and our task. Bluff Rockis organised around the key question- how do we know the past? Using historical material (letters, memoirs), a tourist brochure, and local histories, it focuses on the ways that the massacre(s) of Aborigines at Bluff Rock, in New England during the 1840s has been recorded and remembered. It is the author's ability to lay herself on the line that makes this a courageous and even controversial text. Schlunke, who grew up in New England area, takes this one story from early colonial Australia and looks at the many ways it is organised as a memory of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations. |
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... taken at the ruined death camp , green grass and trees making it look like a park with rail track and wire . This man said he had been a boy at the time and had taken vegetables to the guard's kitchen from the village . He said , ' Oh ...
... taken at the ruined death camp , green grass and trees making it look like a park with rail track and wire . This man said he had been a boy at the time and had taken vegetables to the guard's kitchen from the village . He said , ' Oh ...
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... taken away from her country , used by Blake and perhaps others ? Did she think she was saved ? Might there also have been Aboriginal women taken from others of the massacres carried out around Tenterfield ? And were children also used ...
... taken away from her country , used by Blake and perhaps others ? Did she think she was saved ? Might there also have been Aboriginal women taken from others of the massacres carried out around Tenterfield ? And were children also used ...
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... taken . There exists in Irby's experience a reasonably established pattern of Aboriginal behaviour , but the death of Robinson does not fit his expectations . This suggests a number of scenarios . The most common reason for an isolated ...
... taken . There exists in Irby's experience a reasonably established pattern of Aboriginal behaviour , but the death of Robinson does not fit his expectations . This suggests a number of scenarios . The most common reason for an isolated ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
BLUFF ROCK | 19 |
IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY | 29 |
Copyright | |
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