This work throws new light on history, social memory and
colonialism. The book charts how films, books and storytelling,
public commemoration and instruction have, in a strange ensemble,
created something we call Australian history. It considers key
moments of historical imagination, including Aboriginal and
non-Aboriginal histories of Captain Cook, school-histories and
museum exhibitions, and the gendering of events such as the Eureka
Stockade and the shipwreck of Eliza Fraser. Chris Healy argues that
the way in which the past is constructed in the public imagination
raises pressing questions. He describes the predicament of European
Australians who imagined a continent without history while
themselves being obsessed with history. He asks: what can history
mean in a postcolonial society? This book seeks a new sense of
remembering. Rather than being content with a culture of amnesia or
facile nostalgia, it makes the case for learning to belong in the
ruins of colonial histories. Chris Healy's investigation of
historical cultures and narratives is a powerful statement for
historical imagination in our times.
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