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Rebecca Dorgelo Rebecca Dorgelo i(A141726 works by)
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1 Frontier Violence and the Power of the 'Sacred' : Alex Miller's Journey to the Stone Country and Landscape of Farewell Rebecca Dorgelo , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Frontier Skirmishes : Literary and Cultural Debates in Australia after 1992 2010; (p. 129-140)
1 y separately published work icon The Chief Protector Returns : Textual Representations of A.O. Neville Australia's Coloured Minority : Its Place in the Community Rebecca Dorgelo , Tasmania : 2007 14181244 2007 single work thesis

'This thesis examines the different ways in which representations of A. O. Neville—Chief Protector of Aborigines / Commissioner of Native Affairs in Western Australia from 1915 to 1940—operate in a select group of texts. I argue that Neville is a highly charged synecdochic figure who stands in, discursively, for all white, bureaucratic administrators, in order to distil changing anxieties about Australia and its past. I examine key texts from Neville’s own writing to a range of more recent, fictional texts. I utilise a postcolonial approach in my analysis of the figure of Neville, through a reading of his continuing incarnations in Australian literature and culture. This project seeks to do with A.O. Neville what Kay Schaffer’s In the Wake of First Contact: The Eliza Fraser Stories did with Eliza Fraser.'  (Publication abstract)
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