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Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Empathy, Elizabeth Durack, and the Colonial Imagination : '... Like an Aborigine'
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An account of Durack's creation of herself as a fictional Aboriginal artist, Eddie Burrup.

Notes

  • Author's note: The subtitle '... like an Aborigine' is from the chorus of John Williamson's song 'Raining on thr Rock' (1986) (p.163)

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    y separately published work icon A Dark Smudge Upon the Sand : Essays on Race, Guilt and the National Consciousness Julie Marcus , Canada Bay : LhR Press , 1999 Z1460029 1999 selected work criticism In a wide-ranging discussion of how Aboriginal spirituality and identity are drawn into Australia's national consciousness, Marcus shows why it is that guilt continues to shadow understandings of history and the impact of colonialism. - back cover Canada Bay : LhR Press , 1999 pg. 145-165
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