Telling stories
Subtitle: indigenous history and memory in Australia and New Zealand
By: edited by Bain Attwood and Fiona Magowan.
Contributors: Attwood, Bain.; Magowan, Fiona.
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Wellington, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Maori (New Zealand people) -- History.; Maori (New Zealand people) -- Biography.; Aboriginal Australians -- History.; Aboriginal Australians -- Biography.; Oral tradition -- Australia.; Oral tradition -- New Zealand.
Genres: Biography.
Description: This book looks at the place of life stories and of memory in history: who tells stories, the purpose for which they are told; the role of story in the politics of land claims; and the way language impacts on research and writing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Indigenous Australian life writing : tactics and transformations / Penny van Toorn; title: Stories for land : oral narratives in the Māori Land Court / Ann Parsonson; title: Crying to remember : reproducing personhood and community / Fiona Magowan; title: The saga of Captain Cook : remembrance and morality / Deborah Bird Rose; title: Encounters across time : the makings of an unanticipated trilogy / Judith Binney; title: In the absence of vita as genre : the making of the Roy Kelly story / Basil Samsom; title: Autobiography and testimonial discourse in Myles Lalor's 'oral history' / Jeremy Beckett; title: Taha Māori in the DNZB : a Pākehā view / W.H. Oliver; title: Māori land law and the Treaty claims process / Andrew Erueti and Alan Ward; title: 'Learning about the truth' : the stolen generations narrative / Bain Attwood.