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Finding Eliza : power and colonial storytelling / Larissa Behrendt.

Finding Eliza : power and colonial storytelling / Larissa Behrendt.
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Record Number 17781
ISBN 9780702253904 (paperback)
Location 305.89 BEH
Author Behrendt, Larissa (author.).
Title Finding Eliza : power and colonial storytelling / Larissa Behrendt.
Published St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2016.
Collation 211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Content types text
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Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Note "Indigenous lawyer and writer Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the local Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island off the Queensland coast in 1836. In this deeply personal book, Behrendt uses Eliza's tale as a starting point to interrogate how Aboriginal people -- and indigenous people of other countries -- have been portrayed in their colonisers' stories. Exploring works as diverse as Robinson Crusoe and Coonardoo, Behrendt looks at the ideas embedded in these accounts, such as the supposed promiscuity of Aboriginal women, the fixation on cannibalism, and the myth of the noble savage. Ultimately, Finding Eliza shows how these stories not only reflect the values of their storytellers but also reinforce those values -- which in Australia led to the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the enforcement of unjust laws against them." -- Publisher website.
Personal Name Fraser, Eliza Anne
Fraser, Eliza
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- First contact with Europeans -- Queensland -- Fraser Island
Shipwrecks -- Queensland
Indigenous peoples -- Social life and customs -- Foreign public opinion, European -- 19th century
Indigenous peoples -- History -- Errors, inventions, etc
Europeans -- Foreign countries -- Attitudes -- History
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