Bøker av Kay Schaffer

Kay Schaffer explores the images and narratives built up around an English woman who lived for a time with an Aboriginal community after she was shipwrecked in 1836. Through these representations - from the 1830s to the present - the author explores notions of colonialism, race, nation, and gender.

Kay Schaffer looks at how the concept of 'the typical Australian', and the woman who stands in relation to him, has evolved across a range of cultural forms. This study will interest readers concerned with Australian literary and cultural history, as well as the broader questions of Australia's changing self-image.

Personal narratives have become one of the most potent vehicles for advancing human rights claims across the world. Human Rights and Narrated Lives explores what happens when autobiographical narratives are produced, received, and circulated in the field of human rights.