Constructions of colonialism : perspectives on Eliza Fraser's shipwreck /
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. Early...
| Други автори: | McNiven, Ian J., Russell, Lynette., Schaffer, Kay, 1945- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
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London ; New York :
Leicester University Press,
1998.
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Constructions of colonialism. |
Съдържание:
- 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; Eliza Surviva; 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.