‘Like the Thunder’: Seeing Stories in the Gulf Country

该项目调查卡奔塔利亚湾土著和非土著人民之间关系的性质。它将产生富有想象力的理解，即在淘金热后期，万宜女子和中国男子如何通过历史婚姻建立新的关系；考虑当代原住民倡导的挑战；并研究讲故事如何让我们理解关系的性质。结果将以主要的小说和非小说作品以及学术论文集的形式呈现。文化利益包括展示讲故事如何有助于揭示人际关系的本质，以及重建关系的能力如何对不同文化和解至关重要。

This project investigates the nature of relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Gulf of Carpentaria. It will generate imaginative understandings of how new relations might have been built through the historical marriage of a Waanyi woman and Chinese man in the late gold rush era; consider the challenges of contemporary Aboriginal advocacy; and examine how storytelling allows us to understand the nature of relations. The outcomes will be presented in major works of fiction and non-fiction and a collection of scholarly essays. Cultural benefits include showing how storytelling helps reveal the essential nature of human relations, and how the capacity to remake relations is essential to intercultural reconciliation.