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The Country of Lost Children

An Australian Anxiety

by North Queensland) Peter Pierce (james Cook University

  • Paperback
  • 230 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

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For readers interested in Australian cultural history

Examines the unsettling legacy of lost children

You will gain a deeper understanding of reconciliation issues

This insightful book explores the haunting history of lost children in Australia.

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The figure of the lost child has haunted the Australian imagination. Peter Pierce's sometimes shocking study The Country of Lost Children, traces this ambivalent and disturbing history. In the nineteenth century the idea of losing one's child to a strange country reflected white settlers' distrust of their new land and its Aboriginal inhabitants. The book offers insights into the passing of an opportunity for reconciliation between European and indigenous Australians. In the twentieth century the lost child continues to torment the national consciousness, but no longer as the bewildered wanderer in the bush. Instead the emblematic lost child of modern Australia is a victim of abuse, abandonment or abduction. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from poetry, fiction and newspaper reports to paintings and films, this book analyses the cultural and moral implications of the lost child in our history.
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Sacred And The ProfaneThe Country of Lost Children

  • Title

    The Country of Lost Children

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    June 1999

  • Weight

    314g

  • Page Count

    230

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521594998

  • ISBN-10

    0521594995

  • Eden Code

    4575272

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