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Finding Eliza : power and colonial storytelling / Larissa Behrendt.

By: Publisher: St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 211 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 20 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • cartographic image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780702253904 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.89915 21
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Once Upon a Time -- 2.The White Woman Captured by Cannibals -- 3.Methods and Motives -- 4.The Other Side of the Story -- 5.Fictionalising Aboriginal Women -- 6.Cannibalism: Dark Acts on the Frontier -- 7.Imagining Noble Savages -- 8.Telling Stories about Colonisation -- 9.Happily Ever After.
Summary: "Aboriginal lawyer, writer and filmmaker 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 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 ideas 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."--Back cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 305.89915 BEH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 67699

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-211)

Machine generated contents note: 1.Once Upon a Time -- 2.The White Woman Captured by Cannibals -- 3.Methods and Motives -- 4.The Other Side of the Story -- 5.Fictionalising Aboriginal Women -- 6.Cannibalism: Dark Acts on the Frontier -- 7.Imagining Noble Savages -- 8.Telling Stories about Colonisation -- 9.Happily Ever After.

"Aboriginal lawyer, writer and filmmaker 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 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 ideas 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."--Back cover.

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