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Constructions of Colonialism

Perspectives on Eliza Fraser's Shipwreck
Buch | Hardcover
192 Seiten
1999
Leicester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7185-0139-6 (ISBN)
93,50 inkl. MwSt
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In 1836 "The Stirling Castle" was wrecked off the Queensland coast and many of the crew, including the captain's wife, Eliza Fraser, were marooned on Fraser Island. This book critically examines the Eliza Fraser episode, which has become the subject of popular myth in the Australian psyche.
One of the most famous shipwreck sagas of the 19th century took place on the tropical coast of north-east Australia. In 1836 the Stirling Castle was wrecked off the Queensland coast and many of the crew, together with the captain's wife, Eliza Fraser, were marooned on Fraser Island. Early sensationalized accounts represent Mrs Fraser as an innocent white victim of colonialism and her Aboriginal captors as barbarous savages. These "first contact" narratives of the white woman and her Aboriginal "captors" impacted significantly on England and the politics of Empire at an early stage in Australia's colonial history. The text critically examines the Eliza Fraser episode by bringing together an interdisciplinary team of authors, artists, members of the Fraser Island Aboriginal community and academics in the areas of cultural and women's studies, literature, history, anthropology, archaeology, the visual and creative arts. This book Essays include feminist analyses of the incident, investigations of textual and visual representations of Aboriginal people, and considerations of the role played by Elisa Fraser as creative inspiration for the arts.
The text explores the constructions of Empire, colonialism, identity, femininity, savagery, otherness, captivity and survival.

Eliza Fraser - an historical record; K'gari, Mrs Fraser and Butchulia oral tradition; shipwreck saga as arhaeological text - (re)constructing Fraser Island's aboriginal past; "mere trifles and faint representations" - the representation of savage life offered by Eliza Fraser; "our fair narrator" down-under - Mrs Fraser's body and the preservation of the Empire; "we are like Eliza" - 20th-century Australian responses to the Eliza Fraser saga; "home ground and foreign territory" - the works of Sidney Nolan and Fiona Foley; no woman is an island - the Eliza Fraser variations; from Eliza to Elizabeth - Andre Brink's version of the Eliza Fraser story; "fears of primitive otherness" - "race" in Michael Ondaatje's "The Man with Seven Toes"; a blast from the past.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.1.1999
Zusatzinfo 9 b&w illustrations,
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 234 mm
Gewicht 480 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-7185-0139-X / 071850139X
ISBN-13 978-0-7185-0139-6 / 9780718501396
Zustand Neuware
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