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Finding Eliza : power and colonial storytelling / Larissa Behrendt.

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ANF 305.89915 BEH	Adult Non Fiction		Adult Lending	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780702253904 (paperback)
Classification	305.89915 BEH
Personal Name	Behrendt, Larissa
Title	Finding Eliza : power and colonial storytelling / Larissa Behrendt.
Production & Copyright Details	St Lucia, Queensland University of Queensland Press, 2016.
Production & Copyright Details	copyright2016
Physical Description	211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Content type	text
	still image
	cartographic image
Bibliography	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
Subject-Personal Name	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)
Subject - Fiction Genre	Australian

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