AustLit

'How do we come to know the past? That is the key question of this fascinating, moving, and troubling examination of historical consciousness in contemporary Australia. Memory, Place and Aboriginal-Settler History considers the ways in which settler descendants come to understand the past. It does so by looking closely at a particular people and place: non-Indigenous Australians with ‘generational connections’ to the Wirrabara and North-East Highland districts in mid-north South Australia (4). Krichauff is herself part of this group she terms settler descendants, and her own stories, observations, and research journeys are interwoven with those of her interviewees. Together they offer an evocative account of the presence of the past in place in the twenty-first century.'  (Introduction)