Constructions of Colonialism: Perspectives on Eliza Fraser's Shipwreck

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
Part 1 Historical Representations......Page 21
1 Eliza Fraser: an historical record......Page 23
2 K'gari, Mrs Fraser and Butchulla oral tradition......Page 38
3 Shipwreck saga as archaeological text: reconstructing Fraser Island's Aboriginal past......Page 47
4 'Mere trifles and faint representations': the representations of savage life offered by Eliza Fraser......Page 61
5 'Our fair narrator' down-under: Mrs Fraser's body and the preservation of the Empire......Page 73
Part 2 Modern Representations......Page 87
6 'We are like Eliza': twentieth-century Australian responses to the Eliza Fraser saga......Page 89
7 Home ground and foreign territory: the works of Fiona Foley and Sidney Nolan......Page 107
8 No woman is an island: the Eliza Fraser variations......Page 126
9 From Eliza to Elisabeth: Andre Brink's version of the Eliza Fraser story......Page 136
10 'Fears of primitive otherness': 'race' in Michael Ondaatje's the man with seven toes......Page 148
11 Barbara's Eliza......Page 161
Eliza Surviva......Page 167
12 A blast from the past......Page 173
Bibliography......Page 184
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