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A Breeze Blows, or It Doesn’t Blow: History’s Beckonings
2018
single work
essay
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 78 no. 2 2018;'I wanted it to be true. I wanted it to be true because it was there in the primary sources. It was there in the journals and the biographies: slaves bought and sold in India, in Arabia. The trans-Indian Ocean slave trade and the slave trade within India that passed by other names. Black men bought and sold them. Brown men bought and sold them. White men were sometimes good to do business with. Governor Lachlan Macquarie bought two of them. He says so himself. All the biographers have tracked this down. Centuries pass. The memory of slavery chooses its own path and changes form with every age. My friend in Kochi says slavery ended when the Dutch period ended. The British freed all the slaves. It’s a factual flaw, he says, in response to my enquiry about the slave trade in 1795. As for Lachlan Macquarie, a man who would be Governor, he knew what he was doing.' (Introduction)
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Fictorians : Historians Who ‘Lie’ about the Past, and Like It
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , April no. 28 2015; -
Crossing Over : Academic and Popular History
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Popular Culture , 16 February vol. 1 no. 1 2012; (p. 7-18) 'This article considers the divide between popular and academic history, especially as perceived by popular and academic historians. It argues that the two forms of history, though clearly connected to one another, have different priorities and audiences. In particular, where academic historians prize originality of research, popular historians will tend to prize powerful storytelling. The article suggests that popular historians could acknowledge more handsomely that many do owe their debt to the research findings of academic historians, while in their turn academic historians have much to learn from popular historians about how to communicate the pleasures and importance of understanding the past.' (Author's abstract p. 7)
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Fictionalising History on Film : The Case of 'The Chant of Jmiie Blacksmith'
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 54 no. 11 2010; (p. 113 -115) -
Must Film Be Fiction?
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Winter no. 24 2009; (p. 189-199)
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Untitled
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Antithesis , vol. 17 no. 2007; (p. 194-197)
— Review of Is History Fiction? 2005 single work criticism -
When 'History Changes Who We Were'
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 23 no. 4 2008; (p. 481-488)
— Review of Searching for the Secret River 2006 single work criticism ; The History Question : Who Owns the Past? 2006 single work essay ; Agamemnon's Kiss : Selected Essays 2006 selected work essay ; Is History Fiction? 2005 single work criticism -
Book Reviews
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: History Australia , August vol. 5 no. 2 2008; (p. 57.1-57.3)
— Review of Is History Fiction? 2005 single work criticism -
Fictionalising History on Film : The Case of 'The Chant of Jmiie Blacksmith'
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 54 no. 11 2010; (p. 113 -115) -
Must Film Be Fiction?
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Winter no. 24 2009; (p. 189-199) -
Crossing Over : Academic and Popular History
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Popular Culture , 16 February vol. 1 no. 1 2012; (p. 7-18) 'This article considers the divide between popular and academic history, especially as perceived by popular and academic historians. It argues that the two forms of history, though clearly connected to one another, have different priorities and audiences. In particular, where academic historians prize originality of research, popular historians will tend to prize powerful storytelling. The article suggests that popular historians could acknowledge more handsomely that many do owe their debt to the research findings of academic historians, while in their turn academic historians have much to learn from popular historians about how to communicate the pleasures and importance of understanding the past.' (Author's abstract p. 7)
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Fictorians : Historians Who ‘Lie’ about the Past, and Like It
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , April no. 28 2015; -
A Breeze Blows, or It Doesn’t Blow: History’s Beckonings
2018
single work
essay
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 78 no. 2 2018;'I wanted it to be true. I wanted it to be true because it was there in the primary sources. It was there in the journals and the biographies: slaves bought and sold in India, in Arabia. The trans-Indian Ocean slave trade and the slave trade within India that passed by other names. Black men bought and sold them. Brown men bought and sold them. White men were sometimes good to do business with. Governor Lachlan Macquarie bought two of them. He says so himself. All the biographers have tracked this down. Centuries pass. The memory of slavery chooses its own path and changes form with every age. My friend in Kochi says slavery ended when the Dutch period ended. The British freed all the slaves. It’s a factual flaw, he says, in response to my enquiry about the slave trade in 1795. As for Lachlan Macquarie, a man who would be Governor, he knew what he was doing.' (Introduction)
