1st Edition
A Rape of the Soul So Profound The return of the Stolen Generation
By Peter Read
Copyright 1999
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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A Rape of the Soul So Profound began when a young researcher accidentally came upon restricted files in an archives collection. What he read overturned all his assumptions about an important part of Aboriginal experience and Australia's past. The book ends in the present, 20 years later, in the aftermath of the Royal Commission on the Stolen Generations. Along the way Peter Read investigates how... Read more
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
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
Biography
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).
