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Adaptations
- y Midnite : The Play Ringwood : Penguin , 1997 Z860300 1997 single work drama children's humour
- y Midnite Raffaele Marcellino (composer), Grosvenor Place : 2004 Z1184737 2004 single work musical theatre children's
Notes
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Reviewed by Maurice Saxby in 1967, (source unknown).
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Dedication: To the wild Colonial memory of Moondyne Joe Bushranger, Nostrum-monger and Captain Starlight Bushranger, Gentleman, Clerk of the Geological Survey Department, W. A.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Braille.
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Australia in Three Books
2019
single work
essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 78 no. 3 2019; (p. 15-19)
— Review of Midnite : The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy 1967 single work children's fiction ; Oscar and Lucinda 1988 single work novel ; Questions of Travel 2012 single work novel'Our lives are made up of different arcs—love, family, politics, geography, time and dislocation among them. One of the arcs that has exercised me most is my wondering about post-colonising Australia and its myths and mythmaking propensities, also about my family’s.
'Although my childhood was spent mostly in Melbourne, it was punctuated by our frequent pilgrimages to the promised land (aka South Australia) and inflected by the awareness that Melbourne was exile to my South Australian mother—feelings I do not share. She often reminded us of our ‘free settler’ heritage, and of our roots in the colonial era, no more than a blink of time ago in the face of 50,000 or more years of Aboriginal occupation; my horror has only grown with the intervening years.
'We loved South Australia for our own reasons: for heat, our peerless great-grandmother, wild freedom and the beach. But an awareness of myth, of the stories we tell and the ways we frame present and past, was kindled. If there is an arc in this selection, it is that the postcolonial Australia that I first began to think about as a child—if only at the edges of my mind—is a myth. It always has been.' (Introduction)
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Lost and Found in Translation : Who Can Talk to Country?
2019
single work
essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , January no. 63 2019; (p. 29-46)'Unlike many city-dwelling Australians, the desert holds no terrors for me. Instead, like DH Lawrence, I find the cathedral forests of the coastal regions oppressive and disquieting. Lawrence brought to his descriptions of the Australian bush the same overwrought sensitivity that created the claustrophobic emotional landscape of 'Sons and Lovers', and the appalling, majestic insularity of the Italian mountain village in 'The Lost Girl'. He was the writer who made explicit the sense of some non-human presence in the Antipodean landscape, and while I have a different interpretation of the 'speechless, aimless solitariness' he attributes to the country, his instincts were good.' (Publication abstract)
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'Not While My Cat's Alive!' : Randolph Stow Accepts a Fellowship from the Australia Council
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 323-328) -
The Lure of Language
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 27 no. 5 2012; (p. 20-22) Four readers share sections from favourite children's and young adult books. Some of the books chosen our outside the scope of AustLit. -
Vale Randolph Stow
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 18 no. 3 2010; (p. 11)
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Revisiting... Midnite
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 14 no. 5 1999; (p. 14)
— Review of Midnite : The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy 1967 single work children's fiction -
[Review] Blue Above the Trees [and] Midnite
1968
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 July 1968; (p. 14)
— Review of Blue Above the Trees 1967 single work novel ; Midnite : The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy 1967 single work children's fiction -
[Review] Midnite
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August vol. 6 no. 10 1967; (p. 162)
— Review of Midnite : The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy 1967 single work children's fiction -
[Review] Midnite
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 30 November 1967; (p. 1154)
— Review of Midnite : The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy 1967 single work children's fiction -
[Review] Midnite
1968
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 July 1968; (p. 20)
— Review of Midnite : The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy 1967 single work children's fiction -
The Canberra Times
2010
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 14 June 2010; (p. 8) -
Vale Randolph Stow
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 18 no. 3 2010; (p. 11) -
Readers, Texts, Contexts : Reader-Response Criticism
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Understanding Children's Literature : Key Essays from the Second Edition of the International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature 2005; (p. 86-102) -
A Bicultural Study of Identification : Readers' Responses to the Ironic Treatment of a National Hero
1989
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature in Education , vol. 20 no. 1 1989; (p. 25-35) -
The Lure of Language
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 27 no. 5 2012; (p. 20-22) Four readers share sections from favourite children's and young adult books. Some of the books chosen our outside the scope of AustLit.
Awards
- 1994 winner BILBY (Books I Love Best Yearly) Awards — Read Australian section
- 1968 highly commended CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year Award
- 1800-1899