Unfettering the Mind: imagination, creative writing and the art of the historian
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A cry in the night It was perhaps an hour later, or perhaps the following night, that I was once more wakened by the stammer of a tugboat’s engine, and now I seemed to hear beneath it a troubled, human cry. This time it was futile to hold the bedclothes against my ears; I could not escape a sense of responsibility (Hutchinson 1969: 9). Those are the opening words of a novel that has lurked in the depths of my consciousness ever since I first read it as an undergraduate around the start of...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Morris-Suzuki, Tessa | |
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dc.contributor.editor | Doug Munro | |
dc.contributor.editor | Jack Corbett | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-20T20:58:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-12-20T20:58:26Z | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781760461218 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/218587 | |
dc.description.abstract | A cry in the night It was perhaps an hour later, or perhaps the following night, that I was once more wakened by the stammer of a tugboat’s engine, and now I seemed to hear beneath it a troubled, human cry. This time it was futile to hold the bedclothes against my ears; I could not escape a sense of responsibility (Hutchinson 1969: 9). Those are the opening words of a novel that has lurked in the depths of my consciousness ever since I first read it as an undergraduate around the start of the 1970s. In some quiet way, it has shaped my understanding of history, and now as I approach the end of my university career, still struggling with questions of historical justice and responsibility, I have found myself returning to it and rereading it, each time discovering something new in its pages. It provides, I think, a good starting point for some reflections about works that bring together the art of creative writing and the craft of the historian. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | |
dc.publisher | ANU Press | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Bearing Witness: Essays in Honour of Brij V. Lal | |
dc.title | Unfettering the Mind: imagination, creative writing and the art of the historian | |
dc.type | Book chapter | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 210399 - Historical Studies not elsewhere classified | |
local.identifier.absfor | 200508 - Other Literatures in English | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u5583012xPUB96 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.22459/BW.07.2017 | |
local.identifier.absseo | 970121 - Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | |
local.identifier.absseo | 950203 - Languages and Literature | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-11-23T11:25:13Z | |
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublication | Canberra | |
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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