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Tropes of friendship, undercurrents of fear : alternative emotions on the friendly frontier

Shellam, Tiffany 2012, Tropes of friendship, undercurrents of fear : alternative emotions on the friendly frontier, Westerly, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 16-31.

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Title Tropes of friendship, undercurrents of fear : alternative emotions on the friendly frontier
Author(s) Shellam, Tiffany
Journal name Westerly
Volume number 57
Issue number 2
Start page 16
End page 31
Total pages 16
Publisher University of Western Australia : Westerly Centre
Place of publication Perth, W.A.
Publication date 2012-11-10
ISSN 0043-342X
Keyword(s) cross-cultural encounters
historiography
Aboriginal history
history of colonialism
history of emotions
Summary This article examines a conciliation narrative at King George Sound in Western Australia that originated in the early nineteenth century during an era of European exploration when explorers had fleeting meetings with the Mineng. This friendship narrative has been continually re-presented and inscribed by settlers and later by historians without its imperial power dynamic being critiqued. This essay attempts a genealogy of this friendship motif  as well as exploring the destablising of this narrative by writers and community members. This essay also suggests ways of decolonising this narrative and searches for alternative emotions from this frontier.
Language eng
Field of Research 210301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History
Socio Economic Objective 950503 Understanding Australia's Past
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30049420

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