A Rape of the Soul So Profound: The Return of the Stolen Generation

ISBN-13: 9780367717346 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 256 str.

Peter Read

Opis

A unique account of the 'Stolen Generation' by the man who uncovered the story.

Spis treści

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Prologue: The Stolen Generations: Who are we ?

1.The oral evidence

2.The written evidence

3.The Stolen Generations

4.'Like being born all over again': the establishment of Link-Up

6.At the edge of the firelight: coming home, partly

7.Calling in the accounts

8.Sorry business

9.In the courts: 'In the middle of the ocean, drowning'

Bibliography

Endnotes

Index

O autorze

Peter Read coined the phrase 'the stolen generation', first used by him as a title for a magazine article. In 1981 Peter Read helped create Link-up, an organisation to bring Aborigines who had been abducted back to their parents. It went on to become a major force leading to the Stolen Generation enquiry. On the way Peter wrote many influential publications, including The Lost Children (1988), Charles Perkins: A Biography and Lost Places (1997).