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Witnessing Australian stories : history, testimony, and memory in contemporary culture

Butler, Kelly Jean.

Publisher:	Transaction Publishers,
Pub date:	[2013]
Pages:	vii, 294 pages ;
ISBN:	9781412851589
	1 copy available at University of Alberta - Rutherford Library.

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University of Alberta - Rutherford Library
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Witnessing Australian stories : history, testimony, and memory in contemporary culture
Butler, Kelly Jean.

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Witnessing Australian stories : history, testimony, and memory in contemporary culture
Butler, Kelly Jean.

Personal Author:	Butler, Kelly Jean.
Title:	Witnessing Australian stories : history, testimony, and memory in contemporary culture / Kelly Jean Butler.
Publication:	New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, [2013]
Physical description:	vii, 294 pages ; 24 cm
Content type:	text
Media type:	unmediated
Carrier type:	volume
Subject term:	Historiography--Social aspects--Australia.
Subject term:	Public history--Social aspects--Australia.
Subject term:	Collective memory--Australia.
Subject term:	Witnesses--Australia.
Subject term:	Marginality, Social--Australia--Historiography.
Subject term:	Indigenous peoples--Australia--Historiography.
Subject term:	Immigrants--Australia--Historiography.
Subject term:	Political refugees--Australia--Historiography.
Geographic term:	Australia--Historiography.
Geographic term:	Australia--Social conditions.
Bibliography note:	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:	9781412851589 (acid-free paper)
ISBN:	1412851580 (acid-free paper)
key:	6189794
LCCN:	2012032347

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