{"product_id":"findingelizapowerandcolonialstorytelling","title":"Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling","description":"\u003cp\u003eAboriginal lawyer, writer and filmmaker Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island off the Queensland coast in 1836. In this deeply personal book, Behrendt uses Eliza’s tale as a starting point to interrogate how Aboriginal people – and indigenous people of other countries – have been portrayed in their colonisers’ stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExploring works as diverse as\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCoonardo\u003c\/em\u003eo, Behrendt looks at the stereotypes embedded in these accounts, including the assumption of cannibalism and the myth of the noble savage. Ultimately,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinding Eliza\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eshows how these stories not only reflect the values of their storytellers but also reinforce those values – and how, in Australia, this has contributed to a complex racial divide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLarissa Behrendt\u003cbr\u003ePublished 2016\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e228 pages \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e198mm x 128mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN \u003cspan\u003e9780702253904\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Queensland Press","offers":[{"title":"Larissa Behrendt","offer_id":32224894943313,"sku":"978070225390","price":24.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/6464\/products\/9780702253904.jpg?v=1669264880","url":"https:\/\/shop.mhnsw.au\/products\/findingelizapowerandcolonialstorytelling","provider":"Museums of History NSW","version":"1.0","type":"link"}