Passionate histories : : myth, memory and Indigenous Australia / / edited by Frances Peters-Little, Ann Curthoys and John Docker.

• Superior document: Aboriginal history monograph ; number 21
• TeilnehmendeR: Peters-Little, Frances, 1958-; Curthoys, Ann,; Docker, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Canberra : : ANU E Press & Aboriginal History Inc.,, [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Aboriginal history monograph series ; no. 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 324 pages) :; illustrations (some colour)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book examines the emotional engagements of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people with Indigenous history.

Table of Contents

Preliminary; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part one: massacres; 1. The country has another past: Queensland and the History Wars. Raymond Evans.; 2. 'Hard evidence': the debate about massacre in the Black War in Tasmania. Lyndall Ryan; 3. Epistemological vertigo and allegory: thoughts on massacres, actual, surrogate, and averted - Beersheba, Wake in Fright, Australia. John Docker.; Part two: myths; 4. Remembering the referendum with compassion. Frances Peters-Little; 5. Idle men: the eighteenth-century roots of the Indigenous indolence myth. Shino Konishi

6. 'These unoffending people': myth, history and the idea of Aboriginal resistance in David Collins' Account of the English Colony in New South Wales. Rachel Standfield.7. Demythologising Flynn, with Love: contesting missionaries in Central Australia in the twentieth century. David Trudinger.; Part three: memory and oral history; 8. Paul Robeson's visit to Australia and Aboriginal activism, 1960. Ann Curthoys; 9. Using poetry to capture the Aboriginal voice in oral history transcripts. Lorina Barker.; Part four: identity, myth and memory

10. Making a debut: myths, memories and mimesis. Anna Cole.11. Identity and identification: Aboriginality from the Spanish Civil War to the French Ghettos. Vanessa Castejon.; 12. Urban Aboriginal ceremony: when seeing is not believing. Kristina Everett; 13. Island Home Country: working with Aboriginal protocols in a documentary film about colonisation and growing up white in Tasmania. Jeni Thornley.; Part five: the Stolen Generations; 14. Reconciliation without history: state crime and state punishment in Chile and Australia. Peter Read.

15. Overheard - conversations of a museum curator. Jay Arthur, Barbara Paulson and Troy Pickwick.16. On the significance of saying 'sorry': Apology and reconciliation in Australia. Isabelle Auguste.