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Witnessing Australian Stories: History, Testimony, and Memory in Contemporary Culture

Kelly Jean Butler

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Description:Drawing upon international scholarship on collective memory, public history, testimony, and witnessing, this book represents a cultural history of contemporary Australia. It examines the forms of witnessing that dominated Australian public culture at the turn of the millennium. When former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered his historic apology to Australia s indigenous peoples in February 2008, he performed an act of collective witnessing that affirmed the testimony and experiences of Aboriginal Australians. The phenomenon of witnessing became crucial, not only to the recognition and reparation of past injustices, but to efforts to create a more cosmopolitan Australia in the present."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Witnessing Australian Stories: History, Testimony, and Memory in Contemporary Culture. To get started finding Witnessing Australian Stories: History, Testimony, and Memory in Contemporary Culture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 301

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Release: 2013

ISBN: 1412851025

Description: Drawing upon international scholarship on collective memory, public history, testimony, and witnessing, this book represents a cultural history of contemporary Australia. It examines the forms of witnessing that dominated Australian public culture at the turn of the millennium. When former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered his historic apology to Australia s indigenous peoples in February 2008, he performed an act of collective witnessing that affirmed the testimony and experiences of Aboriginal Australians. The phenomenon of witnessing became crucial, not only to the recognition and reparation of past injustices, but to efforts to create a more cosmopolitan Australia in the present."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Witnessing Australian Stories: History, Testimony, and Memory in Contemporary Culture. To get started finding Witnessing Australian Stories: History, Testimony, and Memory in Contemporary Culture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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