Barbara Dawson: What Six Nineteenth-century Women Tell Us About Indigenous Authority and Identity

by Barbara Dawson

This book offers a fresh perspective in the debate on settler perceptions of Indigenous Australians. It draws together a suite of little known colonial women (apart from Eliza Fraser) and investigates their writings for what they reveal about their attitudes to, views on and beliefs about Aboriginal people, as presented in their published works. The way that reader expectations and publishers' requirements slanted their representations forms part...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1925021963
• ISBN13: 9781925021967
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.8"