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Author Fraser, Peg, author

Title Black Saturday : not the end of the story / Peg Fraser
Published [S.l.] : MONASH UNIVERSITY PUB, 2018
Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2018]
©2018

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Description ix, 266 pages : illustrations (some colour), map (colour) ; 24 cm
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.The Map: Black Saturday in Strathewen -- 2.The Jack: An Introduction to Strathewen -- 3.The Poetry Tree: Memorials -- 4.The Posters: Loss, Anger and Opportunity -- 5.The Mobile Phone: Narratives, Testimony and History -- 6.The Chook: Bushfire and Gender -- 7.The Hard Hat: Place, Home and Rebuilding -- 8.The Chimney: Conclusions -- 9.The Back Story
Summary The Victorian bushfires of February 2009 captured the attention of all Australians and made headlines around the world. One hundred and seventy-three people lost their lives, the greatest number from any bushfire event in this nation’s history. In the wake of this tragedy much media and public commentary emphasised recovery, resilience, community, self-sufficiency and renewed determination. Peg Fraser, working as a Museum Victoria curator with survivors in the small settlement of Strathewen, listened to these stories but also to other, more challenging narratives. The memories and thoughts that Fraser heard, and gives voice to in this book, complicate much of what we thought we knew about the experience of catastrophic natural events. Although all members of the same community, Strathewen’s survivors lived through Black Saturday and its aftermath in ways that were often very different from each other. Beginning each chapter with an object from the bushfires – among them a Trewhella jack, a burned mobile phone, a knitted chook and a brick chimney – Fraser explores and reveals how each person’s identity, including as a man or a woman with a particular social position in the town, impacted upon experiences and understandings of loss, survival and even the future. This is historical truth of the most vital, affecting and powerful kind
Analysis Australian
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Tertiary/Undergraduate
General
Notes Also issued online
Subject Disaster victims -- Victoria -- Biography
Bushfires -- Victoria -- Strathewen
Disaster victims -- Victoria -- Psychology
Disaster relief -- Victoria
Rescue work -- Victoria
Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Victoria
Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Victoria -- Strathewen
Disaster victims -- Victoria -- Strathewen -- Psychology
Resilience (Personality trait)
Rescue work -- Victoria -- Strathewen
Resilience
Natural disasters -- Victoria -- Psychological aspects
Disaster relief -- Victoria -- Strathewen
Life change events -- Victoria
Life change events -- Victoria -- Strathewen
Life change events -- Psychological aspects
Natural disasters -- Victoria -- Strathewen
Natural disasters -- Victoria -- Strathewen -- Psychological aspects
Disaster victims -- Victoria -- Strathewen
Black Saturday Bushfires, 2009
Forest fires -- Victoria -- Strathewen
Wildfires -- Victoria
Natural disasters -- Victoria
Forest fires -- Victoria
Black Saturday bushfires, 2009
Wildfires -- Victoria -- Strathewen
Disaster victims -- Psychology
Life change events -- Australia -- Victoria
Disaster relief -- Australia -- Victoria
Disaster victims -- Australia -- Victoria -- Psychology
Wildfires -- Australia -- Victoria
Disaster victims -- Psychology.
Disaster relief.
Life change events.
Wildfires.
SUBJECT Strathewen (Vic.) -- History
Subject Victoria.
LC no. 2018439990
ISBN 9781925523683
1925523683