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Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling

Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling

First Nations Classics

by Larissa Behrendt and Fiona Foley
Paperback
Publication Date: 04/06/2024

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Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction by Fiona Foley, Finding Eliza is a vital Indigenous perspective on colonial storytelling.

Aboriginal lawyer, writer and filmmaker Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island off the Queensland coast in 1836. In this deeply personal book, Behrendt uses Eliza's tale as a starting point to interrogate how Aboriginal people - and indigenous people of other countries - have been portrayed in their colonisers' stories.

Exploring works as diverse as Robinson Crusoe and Coonardoo, Behrendt looks at the stereotypes embedded in these accounts, including the assumption of cannibalism and the myth of the noble savage. Ultimately, Finding Eliza shows how these stories not only reflect the values of their storytellers but also reinforce those values - and how, in Australia, this has contributed to a complex racial divide.

ISBN:
9780702268533
9780702268533
Category:
Literary studies: fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
04-06-2024
Publisher:
University of Queensland Press
Country of origin:
Australia
Edition:
2nd Edition
Pages:
228
Dimensions (mm):
197x130x19mm
Weight:
0.22kg
Larissa Behrendt

Larissa Behrendt is Professor of Indigenous Research and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is a regular columnist for The Guardian and has published numerous textbooks on Indigenous legal issues.

She is also the author of two novels: Home, which won the 2002 David Unaipon Award and the 2005 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (South-East Asia and South Pacific); and Legacy, which won the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing. She is the Ambassador of the Gawura Aboriginal Campus at St Andrew’s Cathedral School in Sydney and a board member of the Sydney Story Factory, a literacy program in Redfern.

She was awarded the 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year award and 2011 NSW Australian of the Year.

Fiona Foley

Dr Fiona Foley is from the Wondunna clan of the Badtjala nation. Foley exhibits regularly in Australia and internationally. In 2014 she was the recipient of an Australia Council Visual Arts.

She is a regular keynote speaker at conferences and symposia all over the world. Most recently she convened Courting Blakness- Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University (2014) at the University of Queensland, where she was an Adjunct Professor (2011-2017).

Foley completed her fourth film titled, Out of the Sea Like Cloud in 2019. Recent exhibitions include a twenty-five year photographic retrospective titled, Who are these strangers and where are they going? Dr Fiona Foley is currently a Lecturer at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.

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