Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Her story/history: the many fates of Eliza Fraser; 2. Eliza Fraser's story: texts and contexts; 3. John Curtis and the politics of empire: The Shipwreck of the Stirling Castle; 4. Policing the borders of civilisation: colonial man and his others; 5. Cannibals: Western imaginings of the Aboriginal other; 6. Modern reconstructions: Michael Alexander's history and Sidney Nolan's paintings; 7. Patrick White's novel A Fringe of Leaves; 8. A universal postcolonial myth?: representations beyond Australia - Gabriel Josipovici, Michael Ondaatje and Andre Brink; 9. And now for the movie: popular accounts; 10. Oppositional voices: contemporary politics and the Eliza Fraser story.

Promotional Information

In this book, colonialism, race, and gender are explored through the cultural representations of an episode of Australian history.

Reviews

'... an influential contribution to current thinking on the part of Woman and women in meeting points of the ideological, the psychological and the political'. Australian Feminist Studies ' ... the very model of post-modernist writing ... Indeed, it could be set as a textbook for students to explore post-modernism.' Aboriginal History