Title An Anthropological and Literary Study of Two Australian Aboriginal Women's Life Histories : the Impacts of Enforced Child Removal and Policies of Assimilation.

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Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.

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Contents	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.
Note	Author IndexSubject Index.
Summary	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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-420) and index.
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Subject	Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Correspondence.
	Women, Aboriginal Australian.
	Australia.
Genre/Form	Correspondence.
Subject	Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Government policy -- Australia.
	Government policy.
	Stolen generations (Australia)
	Stolen generations (Australia)
	Assimilation (Sociology) -- Australia.
	Assimilation (Sociology)
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Personal correspondence.
	Personal correspondence.
Other Form:	Print version: Westphalen, Linda. An Anthropological and Literary Study of Two Australian Aboriginal Women's Life Histories : The Impacts of Enforced Child Removal and Policies of Assimilation. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2011 9780773415935
ISBN	9780773421424 (electronic book)
	0773421424 (electronic book)
	9780177341595
	0177341599
	0773415939
	9780773415935
Standard No.	(YBP)7638323

Title An Anthropological and Literary Study of Two Australian Aboriginal Women's Life Histories : the Impacts of Enforced Child Removal and Policies of Assimilation.

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