Kay Schaffer

In the Wake of First Contact

The Eliza Fraser Stories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, colonialism, race, and gender are explored through the cultural representations of an episode of Australian history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780521499200
• ISBN-10: 0521499208
• Artikelnr.: 26222395

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
1. Her story/history: the many fates of Eliza Fraser
2. Eliza Fraser's story: texts and contexts
3. John Curtis and the politics of empire: The Shipwreck of the Stirling Castle
4. Policing the borders of civilisation: colonial man and his others
5. Cannibals: Western imaginings of the Aboriginal other
6. Modern reconstructions: Michael Alexander's history and Sidney Nolan's paintings
7. Patrick White's novel A Fringe of Leaves
8. A universal postcolonial myth?: representations beyond Australia - Gabriel Josipovici, Michael Ondaatje and Andre Brink
9. And now for the movie: popular accounts
10. Oppositional voices: contemporary politics and the Eliza Fraser story.