Finding Eliza : power and colonial storytelling / Larissa Behrendt
- Bib ID:
- 6932494
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Behrendt, Larissa, 1969-, author
- Description:
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- St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2016
- ©2016
- 211 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 20 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780702253904 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"Aboriginal lawyer, writer and filmmaker Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the local Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island off the Queensland coast in 1836. In this deeply personal book, Behrendt uses Eliza's tale as a starting point to interrogate how Aboriginal people -- and indigenous people of other countries -- have been portrayed in their colonisers' stories. Exploring works as diverse as Robinson Crusoe and Coonardoo, Behrendt looks at the ideas embedded in these accounts, including the assumption of cannibalism and the myth of the noble savage. Ultimately, Finding Eliza shows how these stories not only reflect the values of their storytellers but also reinforce those values -- and how, in Australia, this has contributed to a complex racial divide."--Back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-211).
- Subject:
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- Fraser, Eliza
- Indigenous peoples -- Social life and customs -- Foreign public opinion, European -- 19th century
- Aboriginal Australians -- First contact with Europeans -- Queensland -- Fraser Island
- Indigenous peoples -- History -- Errors, inventions, etc
- Shipwrecks -- Queensland -- Fraser Island
- Europeans -- Foreign countries -- Attitudes -- History
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Cannibalism
- Race relations - Attitudes
- Butchulla / Batjala / Badtjala people (E30) (Qld SG56-06)
- Transport - Water - Shipwrecks and accidents
- Race relations - Representation - Literature
- Colonisation - Theory
- Sex relations - Coercive
- K'Gari / Fraser Island (SE Qld SG56-03)
- Australian
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2016
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