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Finding Eliza : power and colonial storytelling / Larissa Behrendt.
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9780702253904 (paperback)
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305.89915
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Behrendt, Larissa
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Finding Eliza : power and colonial storytelling / Larissa Behrendt.
Production & Copyright Details
St Lucia, Queensland University of Queensland Press, 2016.
copyright2016
Physical Description
211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
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text
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cartographic image
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Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Note
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 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, such as the supposed promiscuity of Aboriginal women, the fixation on 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 -- which in Australia led to the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the enforcement of unjust laws against them.
Subject-Personal Name
Fraser, Eliza Anne
Fraser, Eliza
Subject - Topical Term
Indigenous peoples -- History -- Errors, inventions, etc
Shipwrecks -- Australia -- Queensland
Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Fraser Island -- First contact with Europeans
Shipwrecks -- Queensland
Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Fraser Island -- First contact with Europeans
Indigenous peoples -- Social life and customs -- Foreign public opinion, European -- 19th century
Indigenous peoples -- History -- Errors, inventions, etc
Europeans -- Foreign countries -- Attitudes -- History
"The Nib" Waverley Library Award for Literature Nominations (2016)
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Australian
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