Looking the Other Way: Henrietta Drake-Brockman’s Younger Sons and Denial in Australian History single work   criticism  
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'In recent years Australian historians have begun to show the ways in which Australia’s black history has simultaneously been concealed and disclosed over a long period of time. This article focuses on one such example of this phenomenon – a 1937 fictionalised family history by the Western Australian writer Henrietta Drake-Brockman – and seeks to uncover the unusual set of biographical, historical, intellectual and generic factors that spurred her to raise questions about this black history rather than look the other way. At the same time, we examine the ways in which Drake-Brockman herself turned a blind eye to the Drake-Brockmans’ entanglement with another racial history.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon History Australia vol. 17 no. 1 2020 19037786 2020 periodical issue

    'Our first issue of 2020 kicks off with some powerfully pertinent items. The president’s report acknowledges the urgency of our discipline’s work while the country struggles to comprehend the scale of the fire disaster and to forge an adequate public response. As Prof. Damousi points out, historians are critical to both tasks, and this will be underscored especially at the next Australian Historical Association (AHA) annual conference at Deakin University, entitled ‘Urgent Histories’.' (Kate Fullagar , Michelle Arrow  & Leigh Boucher  : Editorial introduction)

         2020     pg. 134-151
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  • Younger Sons Henrietta Drake-Brockman , 1937 single work novel
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