Title An Anthropological and Literary Study of Two Australian Aboriginal Women's Life Histories : the Impacts of Enforced Child Removal and Policies of Assimilation

Published Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (478 pages) Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Abstract; Figures; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Warning Notice; Section One; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Ethics: Knowing My Place; Section Two: Spaces That Speak; Chapter Three: Indigenous Autobiographical Writing, Dreaming and History; Section Three: Palimpsest; Chapter Four: Kangan Girl; Chapter Five: We All Find Our Way Home; Section Four: White Out?; Chapter Six: the Pelican and the Moore River Joke; Chapter Seven: First in My Class; Section Five: Ninginah! Stop!; Chapter Eight: Deadly Lives; Bibliography Summary This book examines life history writing by Australian Aboriginal women in the context of ongoing negotiations about one's status and claims to country. It uses a methodological combination of literary analysis, history and anthropology to draw out the distinctive cultural heritages held in palimpsest within texts Notes Author IndexSubject Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-420) and index Notes Print version record Subject Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Correspondence Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Government policy -- Australia Stolen generations (Australia) Assimilation (Sociology) -- Australia SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. Assimilation (Sociology) Stolen generations (Australia) Women, Aboriginal Australian Australia Genre/Form Personal correspondence Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773421424 0773421424

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