Abstract
This project uses extensive archival and interview-based research to complicate a popular and widely accepted narrative about an Australian Indigenous WW1 soldier. Through a series of interventions in the vocabulary and key plot-points of this narrative, Douglas Grant: The Skin of Others identifies various strategies that were employed in previous biographical accounts. In so doing it brings attention to the (un)reliability of dominant-culture narratives, and to the formal and rhetorical structures of history-telling in audio-visual media, and in history more generally.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | ABC Radio National |
| Edition | Earshot |
| Media of output | Online |
| Size | 47 mins |
| Publication status | Published - 8 Aug 2017 |
Keywords
- documentary (radio and film)
- indigenous Australians
- World War I
- Australian history