Research Catalog

Title

Quicksands : foundational histories in Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand / edited by Klaus Neumann, Nicholas Thomas & Hilary Ericksen.

Publication

Sydney, NSW : UNSW Press, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Neumann, Klaus, 1958-
• Thomas, Nicholas.
• Ericksen, Hilary.

Description

xxii, 281 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Why has 'national identity' preoccupied so many writers and artists on both sides of the Tasman? Why have the stories of the first settler societies in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand exercised such a hold over our collective consciousness? And why is this history once again part of contemporary political and cultural debate?" "This innovative trans-Tasman collaboration explores how the founding of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand have been remembered and reimagined over more than two centuries. At the dawn of a new century, when the facts of these cultural encounters are increasingly under challenge, the writers of Quicksands argue for a new 'Australasian' consciousness and imagine new ways to negotiate the quicksands of our national histories."--Jacket.

Subject

• Postcolonialism
• National characteristics, Australian
• National characteristics, New Zealand
• postcolonialism
• Colonisation - Theory
• Colonisation - Ethical issues
• Settlement and contacts - Settlers
• Culture - Theory and criticism - Postcolonial
• Race relations - Representation - History
• Race relations - Racism - Social Darwinism
• Law - Negotiated agreements - Treaties/Makarrata
• Enterprises - Wildlife
• Colonization
• Race relations
• Kolonisatie
• Nationale identiteit
• Kōrero nehe
• Noho-ā-iwi
• Australia > Race relations > History
• New Zealand > Race relations > History
• Australia > Colonization > History
• New Zealand > Colonization > History
• Australia > History
• New Zealand > History
• Australia
• New Zealand (NZ)
• Australia
• New Zealand

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Memories of pasts to come. Hard times : an Australian study / Deborah Bird Rose -- Settlement as forgetting / Stephen Turner -- A history of quiet suspicion / Ross Gibson -- Footings : the mythopoeic foundations of imperial time / Paul Carter -- Settler baggage. The idea of utopia in the European settlement of New Zealand / Jonathan Lamb -- Australasian narratives of constitutional foundation / P.G. McHugh -- A history of beginnings / Julian Thomas -- Myths of nature. Wild life : ferality and the frontier with chaos / Nigel Clark -- Planting indigenous species : a subversion of Australian eco-nationalism / John Morton and Nicholas Smith -- Going between goddesses / Geoff Park -- The work of listening. A spear in the thigh for Senator Evans / Tim Rowse -- Songlines from Aotearoa / Judith Binney.
• Prologue / Greg Dening -- Introduction / The editors -- Memories of Pasts to Come. 1. Hard times: An Australian study / Deborah Bird Rose. 2. Settlement as forgetting / Stephen Turner. 3. A history of quiet suspicion / Ross Gibson. 4. Footings: The mythopoeic foundations of imperial time / Paul Carter -- Settler Baggage. 5. The idea of utopia in the European settlement of New Zealand / Jonathan Lamb. 6. Australasian narratives of constitutional foundation / P.G. McHugh. 7. A history of beginnings / Julian Thomas -- Myths of Nature. 8. Wild life: Ferality and the frontier with chaos / Nigel Clark. 9. Planting indigenous species: A subversion of Australian eco-nationalism / John Morton and Nicholas Smith. 10. Going between goddesses / Geoff Park -- The Work of Listening. 11. A spear in the thigh for Senator Evans / Tim Rowse. 12. Songlines from Aotearoa / Judith Binney -- Conclusion / The editors.

ISBN

• 0868406333
• 9780868406336

LCCN

2001524276

OCLC

• ocm40792283
• 40792283
• SCSB-8903616

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library