An Anthropological and Literary Study of Two Australian Aboriginal Women's Life Histories : the Impacts of Enforced Child Removal and Policies of Assimilation.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (478 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780773421424
- 0773421424
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Correspondence
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Government policy -- Australia
- Stolen generations (Australia)
- Assimilation (Sociology) -- Australia
- Australiennes (Aborigènes) -- Australie -- Correspondance
- Australiennes (Aborigènes) -- Politique gouvernementale -- Australie
- Générations volées (Australie)
- Assimilation (Sociologie) -- Australie
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies
- Assimilation (Sociology)
- Stolen generations (Australia)
- Women, Aboriginal Australian
- Australia
- 305.4889915
- GN666
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Abstract; Figures; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Warning Notice; Section One; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Ethics: Knowing My Place; Section Two: Spaces That Speak; Chapter Three: Indigenous Autobiographical Writing, Dreaming and History; Section Three: Palimpsest; Chapter Four: Kangan Girl; Chapter Five: We All Find Our Way Home; Section Four: White Out?; Chapter Six: the Pelican and the Moore River Joke; Chapter Seven: First in My Class; Section Five: Ninginah! Stop!; Chapter Eight: Deadly Lives; Bibliography.
Author IndexSubject Index.
This book examines life history writing by Australian Aboriginal women in the context of ongoing negotiations about one's status and claims to country. It uses a methodological combination of literary analysis, history and anthropology to draw out the distinctive cultural heritages held in palimpsest within texts.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-420) and index.
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