| Historical Representation and the Postcolonial Imaginary: Constructing Travellers and Aborigines Contributor(s): Hartnett, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1443827193 ISBN-13: 9781443827195 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing OUR PRICE: $50.44 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Historiography - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 305.906 |
| LCCN: 2011486694 |
| Physical Information: 98 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Historical Representation and the Postcolonial Imaginary: Constructing Travellers and Aborigines endeavours to provide an overview of the role which oral history plays in the documentation, representation and subsequent empowerment of neglected and long-marginalised social groups, in this case: the cultural minorities that are the Irish Travellers and the Australian Aborigines. Oral history has proved paramount in enabling such groups to document their pasts, pasts which until recently had been occluded and often-ignored. This work explores the genre that is oral history through the prism that is the construction of the 'Other' in society and with particular reference to two minorities whose histories share a range of similar characteristics. In examining this process, it is possible to trace the transformation of folklore and storytelling into documented historical narrative. |