The Archipelago of Us [electronic resource] : A search for our identity in Australia's most remote territories
Reneé Pettitt-Schipp2023
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Five years after first living in the Indian Ocean Territories, Reneé
Pettitt-Schipp finds herself returning, haunted by memories of the asylum
seekers she taught there in Australia' s detention system. Why do the islands
still have a hold on her? Why are her memories such troubled ones? And why can
she not let go?Closer to Indonesia than Australia, Christmas Island and Cocos
(Keeling) Islands are out of sight and out of mind to most Australians, but they
are the sites of some of our frontier wars, the places where our identity is
laid bare in all its flawed complexity – and the places where there is time and
space enough to ask: can we be better than this?A travel narrative, a memoir and
a thought-provoking look at Australia' s complicated history with Christmas and
Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the asylum seekers detained there.
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Author:
Reneé Pettitt-Schipp, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Fremantle Press, 2023
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (320.0 pages)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781760992231
Language:
English
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BRN:
436765
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