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IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER:WHAT SIX NINETEENTH-CENTURY WOMEN TELL US ABOUT INDIGENOUS AUTHORITY AND IDENTITY

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This book offers a fresh perspective in the debate on settler perceptions of Indigenous Australians. It draws together a suite of little known colonial women (apart from Eliza Fraser) and investigates their writings for what they reveal about their attitudes to, views on and beliefs about Aboriginal people, as presented in their published works. The way that reader expectations and publishers’ requirements slanted their representations forms part of this analysis.

All six women write of their first-hand experiences on Australian frontiers of settlement. The division into ‘adventurers’ (Eliza Fraser, Eliza Davies and Emily Cowl) and longer-term ‘settlers’ (Katherine Kirkland, Mary McConnel and Rose Scott Cowen) allows interrogation into the differing representations between those with a transitory knowledge of Indigenous people and those who had a close and more permanent relationship with Indigenous women, even encompassing individual friendship. More pertinently, the book strives to reveal the aspects, largely overlooked in colonial narratives, of Indigenous agency, authority and individuality.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

305.40994 DAW i

Penerbit

AUSTRALIA : ANU Press (Australian National University)., 2014

Deskripsi Fisik

xxv + 196 p

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781925021974

Klasifikasi

NONE

Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

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Subjek

History
Australia
Aboriginal Australians

Info Detail Spesifik

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

DAWSON, BARBARA

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