Constructions of Colonialism : Perspectives on Eliza Fraser's Shipwreck

by McNiven, Ian J.; Russell, Lynette; Schaffer, Kay; McNiven, Ian J.

• ISBN13: 9780718501396
• ISBN10: 071850139X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	1	(12)
Ian J. McNiven
Lynette Russell
Kay Schaffer
Part 1 Historical Representations
Eliza Fraser: an historical record	13	(15)
Elaine Brown
K'gari, Mrs Fraser and Butchulla oral tradition	28	(9)
Olga Miller
Shipwreck saga as archaeological text: reconstructing Fraser Island's Aboriginal past	37	(14)
Ian J. McNiven
`Mere trifles and faint representations': the representations of savage life offered by Eliza Fraser	51	(12)
Lynette Russell
`Our fair narrator' down-under: Mrs Fraser's body and the preservation of the Empire	63	(16)
Rod Macneil
Part 2 Modern Representations
`We are like Eliza': twentieth-century Australian responses to the Eliza Fraser saga	79	(18)
Kay Schaffer
Home ground and foreign territory: the works of Fiona Foley and Sidney Nolan	97	(19)
Jude Adams
No woman is an island: the Eliza Fraser variations	116	(10)
Jim Davidson
From Eliza to Elisabeth: Andre Brink's version of the Eliza Fraser story	126	(12)
Sue Kossew
`Fears of primitive otherness': `race' in Michael Ondaatje's the man with seven toes	138	(13)
Gerry Turcotte
Barbara's Eliza	151	(12)
Barbara Blackman
Eliza Surviva	157	(6)
Barbara Blackman
A blast from the past	163	(11)
Fiona Foley
Bibliography	174	(9)
Index	183