Fatal Collisions : The South Australian Frontier and the Violence of Memory.

Cover -- About the authors -- Title page -- Imprint -- Contents page 1 -- Contents page 2 -- Preface -- Map -- Introduction: The Violence of Memory -- South Australian Settlement and Frontier Violence -- Mythologising the Frontier -- Reconstructing the Maria Massacre -- Regional History and the Rufus River Conflicts -- Recalling the Elliston Incident -- The Legend of James Brown -- Fatal Collisions in the Flinders Ranges -- Logic's Unexpected Celebrity -- Epilogue: Unsettling the past -- Notes -- Introduction: The Violence of Memory -- Reconstructing the Maria Massacre -- Regional History and the Rufus River Conflicts -- Recalling the Elliston Incident -- The Legend of James Brown -- Fatal Collisions in the Flinders Ranges -- Logic's Unexpected Celebrity -- Epilogue: Unsettling the Past -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Wakefield Press.

Fatal Collisions is about violence on the South Australian frontier and the ways in which it has been remembered in Anglo-Australian accounts of the past. The stories it tells take place in that fluid zone where history, memory and myth meet in popular consciousness.

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