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Aftermaths : colonialism, violence and memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific

Title: Aftermaths : colonialism, violence and memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific / edited by Angela Wanhalla, Lyndall Ryan and Camille Nurka.
Publication: Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, Te Whare Tā o Te Wānanga o Ōtākou, 2023.

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312 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps; 24 cm

Summary

"Aftermaths explores the life-changing intergenerational effects of colonial violence in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific. The settings of these accessible, illustrated short essays range from Orakau pa in the Waikato to the Kimberleys in northwest Australia, from orphanages in Fiji to the ancestral lands of the Wiyot Tribe in Northern California. Story by story, this collection powerfully reveals the living legacy of historical events, showing how they have been remembered (and misremembered) within families and communities into the present day. Editors Angela Wanhalla, Lyndall Ryan and Camille Nurka have invited a group of prominent scholars to write about colonial histories by reflecting on a range of events through a variety of perspectives, including personal experiences, family stories, collaborative research, oral and literary histories, commemoration activities and contemporary artworks. The result is a readable, informative and often extremely moving book that makes an essential contribution to our knowledge of the effects of colonial violence and dispossession."

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History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-301) and index.

Contents

Introduction. Colonialism, violence and memory / Angela Wanhalla and Lyndall Ryan -- Confronting historical silences. War stories our teachers never told us: documenting New Zealand wars : narratives and silences / Joanna Kidman and Vincent O'Malley -- Regional memorials and frontier violence : reconciling with the Australian frontier / Amanda Nettelbeck -- The bones in the closet : Colonial violence in Pαkehα family history / Keri Mills -- Wētere Te Rerenga and the murder of Rev. John Whiteley / Anaru Eketone -- Women and colony violence. The grandmother dress : violence and world renewal in Northern California / Victoria Haskins -- Mr and Mrs Flowers ; War, marriage and mobility / Angela Wanhalla -- Violence of the law : prosecuting gendered violence in colonial Fiji / Kate Stevens.

ISBN

9781990048449
1990048447

OCLC

on1374282725
SCSB-14690176

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library