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Constructions of colonialism : perspectives on Eliza Fraser's shipwreck

Title: Constructions of colonialism : perspectives on Eliza Fraser's shipwreck / edited by Ian J. McNiven, Lynette Russell, and Kay Schaffer.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Leicester University Press, 1998.

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vi, 192 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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Contents

Introduction / Ian J. McNiven, Lynette Russell and Kay Schaffer -- Pt. 1. Historical Representations. Eliza Fraser: an historical record / Elaine Brown. K'gari, Mrs. Fraser and Butchulla oral tradition / Olga Miller. Shipwreck saga as archaeological text: reconstructing Fraser Island's Aboriginal past / Ian J. McNiven. 'Mere trifles and faint representations': the representations of savage life offered by Eliza Fraser / Lynette Russell. 'Our fair narrator' down-under: Mrs. Fraser's body and the preservation of the Empire / Rod Macneil -- Pt. 2. Modern Representations. 'We are like Eliza': twentieth-century Australian responses to the Eliza Fraser saga / Kay Schaffer. Home ground and foreign territory: the works of Fiona Foley and Sidney Nolan / Jude Adams. No woman is an island: the Eliza Fraser variations / Jim Davidson. From Eliza to Elisabeth: Andre Brink's version of the Eliza Fraser story / Sue Kossew.
'Fears of primitive otherness': 'race' in Michael Ondaatje's the man with seven toes / Gerry Turcotte. Barbara's Eliza / Barbara Blackman. Eliza Surviva / Barbara Blackman. A blast from the past / Fiona Foley.

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97051839

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Columbia University Libraries