Telling Stories: Indigenous History and Memory in Australia and New Zealand edited by Bain Attwood and Fiona Magowan

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges with front cover top right corners, now protected with book tape. Interior and binding are still excellent.

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...

Recent decades have seen a tremendous upsurge of interest among the Indigenous peoples of Australia and New Zealand in their history. Life stories, land claims, genealogy, song dance and painting have all made new contributions to the recovery and representation of the past.

Telling Stories looks at the place of life stories and of memory in history: who tells the life stories; the purpose for which they are told; the role of story and history in the politics of land claims; and the way language impacts on research and writing.