Finding Eliza Power And Colonial Storytelling

Author : Larissa Behrendt
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702269824
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding Eliza written by Larissa Behrendt and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aboriginal lawyer, writer and filmmaker Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island off the Queensland coast in 1836. In this deeply personal book, Behrendt uses Eliza' s tale as a starting point to interrogate how Aboriginal people &– and indigenous people of other countries &– have been portrayed in their colonisers' stories.Exploring works as diverse as Robinson Crusoe and Coonardoo, Behrendt looks at the stereotypes embedded in these accounts, including the assumption of cannibalism and the myth of the noble savage. Ultimately, Finding Eliza shows how these stories not only reflect the values of their storytellers but also reinforce those values &– and how, in Australia, this has contributed to a complex racial divide.

Author : Larissa Behrendt
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702256315
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding Eliza written by Larissa Behrendt and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital Aboriginal perspective on colonial storytelling Indigenous lawyer and writer Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the local Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island in 1836. In this deeply personal book, Behrendt uses Eliza's tale as a starting point to interrogate how Aboriginal people – and indigenous people of other countries – have been portrayed in their colonizers' stories. Citing works as diverse as Robinson Crusoe and Coonardoo, she explores the tropes in these accounts, such as the supposed promiscuity of Aboriginal women, the Europeans' fixation on cannibalism, and the myth of the noble savage. Ultimately, Behrendt shows how these stories not only reflect the values of their storytellers but also reinforce those values – which in Australia led to the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the laws enforced against them.

Author : Larissa Behrendt
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702265322
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Story written by Larissa Behrendt and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother, Della, on a tour of England's most revered literary sites, Jasmine hopes it will bring them closer together and help them reconcile the past. Twenty-five years earlier the disappearance of Jasmine's older sister devastated their tight-knit community. This tragedy returns to haunt Jasmine and Della when another child mysteriously goes missing on Hampstead Heath. As Jasmine immerses herself in the world of her literary idols &– including Jane Austen, the Bront&ë sisters and Virginia Woolf &– Della is inspired to rediscover the wisdom of her own culture and storytelling. But sometimes the stories that are not told can become too great to bear. Ambitious and engrossing, After Story celebrates the extraordinary power of words and the quiet spaces between. We can be ready to listen, but are we ready to hear?

Author : Chelsea Watego
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702264873
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Another Day in the Colony written by Chelsea Watego and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking work – and a call to arms – that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations people. In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of 'the Aboriginal problem', she theorises a strategy for living in a society that has only ever imagined Indigenous peoples as destined to die out. Drawing on her own experiences and observations of the operations of the colony, she exposes the lies that settlers tell about Indigenous people. In refusing such stories, Chelsea narrates her own: fierce, personal, sometimes funny, sometimes anguished. She speaks not of fighting back but of standing her ground against colonialism in academia, in court and in the media. It's a stance that takes its toll on relationships, career prospects and even the body. Yet when told to have hope, Watego's response rings clear: Fuck hope. Be sovereign.

Author : Larissa Behrendt
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702258784
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home written by Larissa Behrendt and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of homecoming, this absorbing novel opens with a young, city-based lawyer setting out on her first visit to ancestral country. Candice arrives at "the place where the rivers meet", the camp of the Eualeyai where in 1918 her grandmother Garibooli was abducted. As Garibooli takes up the story of Candice's Aboriginal family, the twentieth century falls away.Garibooli, renamed Elizabeth, is sent to work as a housemaid, but marriage soon offers escape from the terror of the master's night-time visits. Her displacement carries into the lives of her seven children - their stories witness to the impact of orphanage life and the consequences of having a dark skin in post-war Australia. Vividly rekindled, the lives of her family point the direction home for Candice.Home is a powerful and intelligent first novel from an author who understands both the capacity of language to suppress and the restorative potency of stories that bridge past and present.

Author : Larissa Behrendt
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702245933
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legacy written by Larissa Behrendt and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simone Harlowe is young and clever, an Aboriginial lawyer straddling two lives and two cultures while studying at Harvard. Her family life back in Sydney is defined by her complex relationship with her father, Tony, a prominent Aboriginal rights activist. As Simone juggles the challenges of a modern woman's life - career, family, friends and relationships - her father is confronting his own uncomfortable truths, as his secret double-life implodes. Can Simone accept her father for the man he is and forgive him for the man he's not?

Author : Nicole Watson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030873277
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aboriginal Women, Law and Critical Race Theory written by Nicole Watson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores storytelling as an innovative means of improving understanding of Indigenous people and their histories and struggles including with the law. It uses the Critical Race Theory (‘CRT’) tool of ‘outsider’ or ‘counter’ storytelling to illuminate the practices that have been used by generations of Aboriginal women to create an outlaw culture and to resist their invisibility to law. Legal scholars are yet to use storytelling to bring the experiential knowledge of Aboriginal women to the centre of legal scholarship and yet this book demonstrates how this can be done by way of a new methodology that combines elements of CRT with speculative biography. In one chapter, the author tells the imagined story of Eliza Woree who featured prominently in the backdrop to the decision of the Supreme Court of Queensland in Dempsey v Rigg (1914) but whose voice was erased from the judgements. This accessible book adds a new and innovative dimension to the use of CRT to examine the nexus between race and settler colonialism. It speaks to those interested in Indigenous peoples and the law, Indigenous studies, Indigenous policy, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, feminist studies, race and the law, and cultural studies.

Author : Jonathan Richards
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702236396
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret War written by Jonathan Richards and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret War is the latest salvo in the History Wars that sees historians, politicians and writers arguing over the extent of Indigenous deaths in frontier clashes. It is an authoritative and groundbreaking contribution to Australia's white settlement history. Australian author.

Author : Elizabeth Hodgson
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702250651
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skin Painting written by Elizabeth Hodgson and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brave, haunting, and evocative, this powerful volume presents its poetry in the form of a memoir. From the poet? early experiences in an institution and the effect of this on her family to the illustration of her strength and independence as an adult, this biographical collection helps make the Aboriginal experience accessible and resonant. Exploring themes of art, identity, sexuality, and loneliness, this compendium is both universal and intimate.

Author : Michael Alexander
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781842124543
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Fraser on the Fatal Shore written by Michael Alexander and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1836,the barque Stirling Castle was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef and the crew and the captain's wife, Mrs Fraser, were cast ashore on the coast of what is now Queensland.Captured by aborigines with cannibalistic tendencies, Captain Fraser and his wife were stripped naked and driven into the bush. Fraser was then murdered and his wife, a lady of genteel upbringing, was tortured and made to perform humiliating tasks as the slave of the tribe. Having given birth in an open boat, her baby was immediately drowned and she was forced instead to mother an aboriginal child 'one of the most deformed and ugly looking brats my eyes ever beheld'.A remarkable rescue by an Irish convict, posing as a 'ghost' of a dead warrior, saved Mrs Fraser whose subsequent misadventures in England provide an intriguing finale to this extraordinary story.