Grace Karskens Grace Karskens i(A137066 works by)
Born: Established: 1958 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Nah Doongh's Song Grace Karskens , 2020 17067125 2019 single work biography 'Nah Doongh was among the first generation of Aboriginal children who grew up in a conquered land. She was born around 1800 in the Country near present-day Kingswood, just south-east of Moorroo Morack, Penrith, and she lived until the late 1890s. Her life spanned the first century of colonisation, from the invasion of her Country to the years approaching Federation. She was a contemporary of the famous Hawkesbury River matriarch and landowner Maria Lock and of the astonishing Lake Macquarie religious seer and teacher Biraban.' (Introduction)
1 Life and Death on Dyarubbin: Reports from the Hawkesbury River Grace Karskens , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , January no. 63 2019; (p. 102-106)

'On the riverbank at the old Sackville Aboriginal Reserve on Dyarubbin there-s a stone obelisk. It seems permanent and solid, but it has a habit of slipping out of landscape and memory. Erected in 1952, the obelisk was later swallowed whole by lantana, and when found again during a clean-up in the 1970s, nobody could recall anything about it. There is a sense of quiet reverence to it - this tall, solitary monument dark with age, like a gravestone. But perhaps more striking is the fantastical old fig tree nearby, its interwoven roots wrapped over a massive rectangular rock.' (Publication abstract)

 

1 Building a Local Revolution Grace Karskens , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 31 January 2015; (p. 26)

— Review of A Forger's Progress : The Life of Francis Greenway Alasdair McGregor , 2014 single work biography
1 Great Men from Our Colonial Past Grace Karskens , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 31 January 2015; (p. 21)

— Review of A Forger's Progress : The Life of Francis Greenway Alasdair McGregor , 2014 single work biography
1 The Settler Evolution : Space, Place and Memory in Early Colonial Australia Grace Karskens , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 13 no. 2 2013;

'Ideas and expectations about colonial space and the making and remaking of real places lie at the heart of the early Australian colonies. Over the past forty years, and especially in the last decade, scholars have recovered much of that lost world, a world of polyglot diversity, constant movement, economic social and cultural expansion, cross-cultural encounters, relationships and appropriations, extraordinary adaptations, myriad connections and overlaid human geographies.

'Yet in the later nineteenth century, the colonies were also profoundly shaped by discontinuities in memory, place and experience, as wave upon wave of new arrivals started new lives literally unaware of what had happened earlier, or how these places had come to be. The success of later settlers was built upon those earlier foundations, and yet false assumptions about ‘gaol colonies’ and ‘savages’, twinned with assertions of legitimate occupancy and entitlement, easily captured the narrative as well as the literal ground, and are still widespread in Australian historiography, popular history and heritage today.' (Author's abstract)

1 Archival Riches Grace Karskens , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 335 2011; (p. 67-68)

— Review of The Paper War: Morality, Print Culture and Power in Colonial New South Wales Anna Johnston , 2011 single work biography
1 What Is a Gentleman to Do? Grace Karskens , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , February vol. 6 no. 1 2011; (p. 10-11)

— Review of Saltwater in the Ink : Voices from the Australian Seas 2010 anthology correspondence diary extract
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