| ISBN |
9781412851589 (hbk. : acid-free paper) |
| 1412851580 (hbk. : acid-free paper) |
| Author |
Butler, Kelly Jean (author.) |
| Title |
Witnessing Australian stories : history, testimony, and memory in contemporary culture / Kelly Jean Butler. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, [2013] |
| ©2013. |
| Description |
vii, 294 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Memory and narrative series |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-288) 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. |
| Subjects |
Historiography -- Social aspects -- Australia |
| Public history -- Social aspects -- Australia |
| Collective memory -- Australia |
| Witnesses -- Australia |
| Marginality, Social -- Australia -- Historiography |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations |
| Immigrants -- Australia -- Historiography |
| Political refugees -- Australia -- Historiography |
| National characteristics, Australian |
| Reconciliation -- Australia |
| Australia -- Historiography |
| Australia -- Social conditions |
| Series |
Memory and narrative |
| Call number |
907.20994 BUT |
