In the Wake of First Contact
The Eliza Fraser Stories
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- Author: Kay Schaffer, University of Adelaide
- Date Published: January 1995
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521499200
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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.
Read more- The Eliza Fraser story has fascinated Australians for over 150 years - this book explores quite new dimensions
- Reflections of the story in literature, film, drama, and popular culture explore the international dimensions of the topic
- The author brings the insights of cultural theory, feminist theory, and literary theory to a popular narrative
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'… an influential contribution to current thinking on the part of Woman and women in meeting points of the ideological, the psychological and the political'. Australian Feminist Studies
See more reviews' … the very model of post-modernist writing … Indeed, it could be set as a textbook for students to explore post-modernism.' Aboriginal History
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- Date Published: January 1995
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521499200
- length: 340 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- contains: 19 b/w illus. 21 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
1. Her story/history: the many fates of Eliza Fraser
2. Eliza Fraser's story: texts and contexts
3. John Curtis and the politics of empire: The Shipwreck of the Stirling Castle
4. Policing the borders of civilisation: colonial man and his others
5. Cannibals: Western imaginings of the Aboriginal other
6. Modern reconstructions: Michael Alexander's history and Sidney Nolan's paintings
7. Patrick White's novel A Fringe of Leaves
8. A universal postcolonial myth?: representations beyond Australia - Gabriel Josipovici, Michael Ondaatje and Andre Brink
9. And now for the movie: popular accounts
10. Oppositional voices: contemporary politics and the Eliza Fraser story.
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