'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)
Henrietta Drake-Brockman Reading from Her Novel
Hazel de Berg
(interviewer),
Canberra
:
National Library of Australia
,
1960
18411637
1960
single work
interview
'Drake-Brockman reads from one of her first novels : "Younger sons" and gives preliminary notes on the writing and research for this novel.' (Trove)
Henrietta Drake-Brockman Reading from Her Novel
Hazel de Berg
(interviewer),
Canberra
:
National Library of Australia
,
1960
18411637
1960
single work
interview
'Drake-Brockman reads from one of her first novels : "Younger sons" and gives preliminary notes on the writing and research for this novel.' (Trove)
'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)
