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Author:
Butler, Kelly Jean. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012054987
Title:
Witnessing Australian stories : history, testimony, and memory in contemporary culture / Kelly Jean Butler.
Publisher:
Transaction Publishers,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
294 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Australia--Historiography.
Australia--Social conditions.
Historiography--Social aspects--Australia.
Public history--Social aspects--Australia.
Collective memory--Australia.
Witnesses--Australia.
Marginality, Social--Australia--Historiography.
Indigenous peoples--Australia--Historiography.
Immigrants--Australia--Historiography.
Political refugees--Australia--Historiography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Public histories, personal stories -- Witnessing the stolen generations -- "This is how I'm sorry" : Creative witnessing in contemporary Australian historical fictions -- Frontiers of witnessing : History after testimony -- Witnessing UnAustralia : Asylum seeker testimony and the national good -- "Do you want the truth or what I said?" : False witnessing and the culture of denial -- Witnessing (dis)possession : Victims, battlers and "ordinary" Australians -- Conclusion: Witnessing Australian stories.
ISBN:
1412851580
9781412851589
OCLC:
(OCoLC)809249946
LCCN:
2012032347
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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