In the Wake of First Contact: The Eliza Fraser StoriesCUP Archive, 1995 - 320 من الصفحات Eliza Fraser was an English woman shipwrecked on the Australian coast in 1836, where she lived with an Aboriginal community until her rescue. The story of a 'civilised' white female being taken captive by 'savage' black men was both fascinating and repulsive. Images and narratives surrounding this notorious episode have proliferated from the 1830s to the present. Kay Schaffer looks at the various literary and artistic manifestations of Eliza Fraser as a fictional presence in Australian culture. Schaffer looks at the contemporary narratives, and at more recent representations of Mrs Fraser in film, in the art of Sidney Nolan, and the writing of Patrick White. The book uses these texts to examine historical discourses of colonialism, race, gender, and nation. This accessible and stimulating book promises to make an impressive contribution to women's studies, cultural studies, and Australian history. |
المحتوى
The Many Fates of Eliza Fraser | 1 |
Mrs Fraser by Sidney Nolan | 16 |
The Contexts of Empire and Nationalism | 20 |
Texts and Contexts | 29 |
Broadsheet ballad Wreck of the Stirling Castle | 47 |
From Narrative of the Capture Sufferings and Miraculous Escape | 53 |
The murder of the Captain | 62 |
John Curtis and the Politics of Empire | 66 |
Patrick Whites Novel A Fringe of Leaves | 157 |
A Universal Postcolonial Myth? Representations beyond | 176 |
Popular Accounts | 203 |
Cover illustration Kenneth Cook Eliza Fraser | 219 |
Contemporary Politics and | 228 |
By Land and Sea I Leave Ephemeral Spirit by Fiona Foley | 248 |
Notes | 262 |
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Colonial Man | 81 |
Mrs Frasers escape from the savages | 83 |
Western Imaginings of the Aboriginal Other | 106 |
Michael Alexanders History | 127 |
From the Ern Malley series by Sidney Nolan | 140 |
Woman in Mangroves by Sidney Nolan | 149 |
Bibliography | 292 |
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In the Wake of First Contact: The Eliza Fraser Stories <span dir=ltr>Kay Schaffer</span> لا تتوفر معاينة - 1995 |
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