y separately published work icon Emotions : History, Culture, Society periodical issue   peer reviewed assertion peer reviewed assertion
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... vol. 1 no. 2 2017 of Emotions : History, Culture, Society est. 2017 Emotions : History, Culture, Society
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Pity, Love or Justice? Seeing 1830s Australian Colonial Violence, Jane Lydon , single work criticism

'During the 1830s, humanitarian concern for the plight of the British Empire’s Indigenous peoples reached its height, coinciding with colonists’ rapid encroachment upon Indigenous land in New South Wales. Increasing frontier violence culminated in the shocking Myall Creek Massacre of June 1838, prompting heated debates regarding the treatment of Australian Aboriginal people. Humanitarians and colonists deployed intensely emotive strategies seeking to direct compassion towards their very different objects via newspapers, the pulpit, prose, poetry and imagery. The landmark sermon delivered in late 1838 by Sydney Baptist minister John Saunders argued for Indigenous rights and the recognition of Aboriginal humanity, drawing a distinction between ‘pity’ and ‘justice’ that anticipated more recent debates regarding empathy. Saunders’s argument contrasts with sentimental anti- slavery strategies which rendered black people passive beneficiaries of white benevolence, demonstrating that despite scholarly critique which emphasises the limits of empathy, we must not assume empathy has static or homogeneous meanings and political effects in specific circumstances and times. While empathy may be complicit with injustice, conversely a lack of sympathy for other peoples’ suffering may license racism, misogyny and oppression.'

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(p. 109-130)
[Review] The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma, R. A. Goodrich , single work review
— Review of The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma Meera Anne Atkinson , 2017 multi chapter work criticism ;
(p. 155-157)

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