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1 online resource : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; About the Book; About the Author; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication ; Contents; INTRODUCTION; The problem of the past; BLUFF ROCK; On greyness and granite; IT HAPPENED ALONG THE HIGHWAY; Placing the massacre; Visitor information bluff rock; The Keating version; Irby's account; WRITING (AND READING) THE LOCAL; A pioneering family; Liminal (becomingand unbecoming) longings; Superficial monuments; WHAT KEATING HEARD; The letter; History and the heard; Coffin boxed; The meaning of sheep; Shepherding space; Mustering up; Fat and jolly; Across country to the bluff |
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An extraordinary claimOn hearing; Tenterfield, raining; Next day; B ecause it was there; More paddock notes; N ext night; LOCAL KNOW-HOW; Making it all OK; The saved child; My brothers saved kangaroos; The top hat; Tragedy; Practical demoniacs; A word from the government; The local poet; MR IRBY ACCOUNTS; Memoirs of massacre; A natural history of the natives; Making blacks/making ca rtridges; Missing records; War, compromise, particularity; Ambivalence and massacre; The letter account; The diary account; Writing to the commissioner; A short vocabulary list; And what of more ordinary words? |
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HORSES AND DEATHTransportative colonialism; The Sentimental Blokes; The fragile body; Taking it personally,making it personal; The brain farts; The original diaries; Closetting: hidden historiesand the erotics of silence; Reading the original diaries; THE DISAPPEARING WINDEYER; The man and his men; White writing; Deepwater station; Weaver and Connor; The case of the disappearing whiteness; They do it with mirrors; Everyone is black at a distance; Everyone is black at a distance (mark II); It is ridiculous(everyone is black at a distance) (mark II); Death by implication |
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The rock on the edge of my skinMAKING ENDS MEET; Land, God and longing; Placing an end; Writing up; Conclusion; And finally; And then; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES; REFERENCES AND WORKS CITED; INDEX |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Massacres -- Australia -- New South Wales.
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Massacres. |
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Australia. |
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New South Wales. |
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales.
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Aboriginal Australians. |
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New South Wales -- History.
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schlunke, Katrina Bluff Rock Fremantle : Fremantle Press,c2005 9781921696695 |
| ISBN |
9781925161540 electronic book |
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1925161544 electronic book |
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9781921696695 |
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