| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Raising the dead -- A verb that has no name -- The brink of nothing -- The language of Eden -- Threnody -- Iberian Hinterland -- This ill mansion -- Amnesia Road -- Home |
| Summary |
How vast then is forgetting - of language, of places, of the dead? Are these even things that can be measured? They are not - but they can be described. Amnesia Road is a powerful literary consideration of historic violence in two different parts of the world, the seldom-visited mulga plains of south-west Queensland and the backroads of rural Andalusia. It is also an unashamed celebration of the landscapes where this violence - frontier conflict and civil war - has been carried out. Australian Hispanist Luke Stegemann uncovers neglected history and its victims and asks where such forgotten people can find a place in contemporary debates around history, nationality, guilt and identity. Stegemann writes powerfully about these landscapes, finding threads of forgotten history, particularly the brutal murderous Indigenous history that is so often deliberately ignored and the mass killings of civilians in the Spanish Civil War, in Andalusia and Cadiz in particular. Characterised by beautiful, lush writing that remains unflinching, this book prompts us to consider traumatic history and the places where it unfolded in new ways |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 27, 2021) |
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Queensland Literary Awards: Winner The University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award 2021 |
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Australians -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
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Violence -- Australia -- History
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Violence -- Spain -- History
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Bigambul people D34.
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Budjari / Badjiri people D31.
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Gunya people D43.
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Guwamu people D33.
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Kullilli people D30.
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Mandandanji people D44.
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Animals - Livestock - Stealing and killing.
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Economic sectors - Pastoral industry.
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History - Frontier conflict - Queensland.
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Race relations - Racism.
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Race relations - Representation - History.
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Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - 1901-
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Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900.
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Settlement and contacts - Explorers - Aboriginal guides.
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Settlement and contacts - Settlers.
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Water supply - Wells and bores.
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Australians
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International relations
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Military participation -- Australian
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Violence
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Australia -- Relations -- Spain
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Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Participation, Australian
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Balonne River (SW Qld SG55)
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Bulloo River (SW Qld SG55, SG54, SH54)
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Coongoola (SW Qld SG55-14)
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Cunnamulla (SW Qld SH55-02)
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Dirranbandi (SW Qld SH55-03)
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Maranoa River (SW Qld SG55)
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South West Queensland (SW Qld SG54, SG55, SH54, SH55)
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St George (SW Qld SH55-04)
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Thargomindah (SW Qld SG54-16)
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Warrego River (SW Qld SG55, N NSW SH55)
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Australia
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Spain
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781742244839 |
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1742244831 |
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1742249337 |
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9781742249339 |
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