Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling

by Larissa Behrendt

A vital Aboriginal perspective on colonial storytelling Indigenous lawyer and writer Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the local Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0702253901
• ISBN13: 9780702253904
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"