Title: Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Forced Labour Migration
Abstract: Part 1 Convict texts: problematic passages - Jack Bushman's narrative, Ian Duffield virtual reality, Toni Johnson-Woods Margaret Catchpole's first ride, Tina Picton Phillips from Keneally to Wertenbaker - sanitizing convicts, Ruth Brown. Part 2 Questioning the convict class: representing women, Deborah Oxley contumacious, ungovernable and incorrigible - women and workplace resistance, Van Diemen's land 1820-1839, Kirsty Reid a zone of silence - Queensland's convicts and the historiography of Moreton Bay, Tasmin O'Connor workers, penal workers and Sarah Island - life at Macquarie Harbour, 1822-1834, Hamish Maxwell-Stuart. Part 3 Classifying bodies: the genealogy of the modern subject - Indian convicts in Mauritius, Clare Anderson embodied explorations - investigating tattoes and the transportation system, James Bradley and Hamish Maxwell-Stuart what punishment will be sufficient for these rebellious hussies? - headshaving and women in the penal factories, 1820s-1840s, Joy Damousi.
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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