Passionate Histories: Myth, memory and Indigenous Australia
In: Aboriginal History Monographs v.21
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.