Indigenous Australian life writing: tactics and transformations / Penny van Toorn -- Stories for land: oral narratives in the Maori Land Court / Ann Parsonson -- Crying to remember: reproducing personhood and community / Fiona Magowan -- The saga of Captain Cook: remembrance and morality / Deborah Bird Rose -- Encounters across time: the makings of an unanticipated trilogy / Judith Binney -- In the absence of vita as genre: the making of the Roy Kelly story / Basil Sansom -- Autobiography and testimonial discourse in Myles Lalor's 'oral history' / Jeremy Beckett -- Taha Maori in the DNZB: a Pakeha view / W.H. Oliver -- Maori land law and the Treaty claims process / Andrew Erueti and Alan Ward -- 'Learning about the truth': the stolen generations narrative / Bain Attwood
Summary
Indigenous histories not only challenge the content of conventional national and colonial histories inasmuch as they tell a different story, but they also challenge the nature of history itself ..
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-260) and index
