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Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 Snake Dreaming : Autobiography of a Black Woman
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y separately published work icon Snake Cradle Roberta Sykes , St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1997 Z328748 1997 single work autobiography (taught in 1 units)

'Snake Cradle is the first volume of Roberta Sykes's three volume autobiography, Snake Dreaming. Snake Cradle chronicles the early years of one of Australia's best known activists for Aboriginal rights, from the time of her birth in Townsville in the 1940s through to the birth of her son when she was 17, and the trial of the men who raped her.

Roberta's voice is strong and true as she describes far north Queensland of the time, her battles with a series of childhood illnesses, and her growing awareness that hers was not an ordinary Australian childhood. Born to a white mother and a father whose identity she did not know, her passion and commitment to the struggles of the Aboriginal people was shaped by the racism her dark skin invoked. A powerful and moving autobiography about a history that must never be forgotten.' (Allen and Unwin)

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y separately published work icon Snake Dancing Roberta Sykes , St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1998 Z38672 1998 single work autobiography (taught in 1 units) "Snake Dancing chronicles [Sykes's] increasing politicisation and involvement in the Black movement to the time of her invitation from Harvard to take up postgraduate study in the United States. She details the dangerous, demanding and sometimes lonely life of an itinerant activist, and brings human perspective to events that were often headline news around the world."
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y separately published work icon Snake Circle Roberta Sykes , St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 2000 Z453754 2000 single work autobiography 'This is a vivid recounting of Sykes' experience as the first Australian Black to graduate with a doctorate, and of her growing confidence as she thrives in the new environment of Harvard. It also passionately tells of her relationships with those she loves, such as MumShirl and her children, and the ongoing run-ins she has with the bureaucracy and politicians along the way.' Source: Libraries austral (Sighted 08/04/2008).

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Works about this Work

Voicing Historical Silences in Sally Morgan's My Place and Roberta Sykes' Trilogy Snake Dreaming: A Journey from the Margins to the Centre Through Two Different Paths Elena Oliete , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Explorations in Australian Literature 2006; (p. 17-33)
Basing her analysis on 'theories put forward by Homi Bhabha, William E. Cross and Robert Young among others', Oliete compares Sally Morgan's My Place with Roberta Sykes's Snake Dreaming trilogy 'in order to demonstrate that these two books ... present different perspectives on the same topic: the search of a place in a post-colonial society by hybrid women who strive to get out of the Australian fringe'.
Snake Dreaming : The Life-Giving and Life-Taking Powers of the Snake M. Dolores Herrero , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 22 no. 1 2005; (p. 73-89)
Analyses the identity dilemmas in Sykes's polemical and controversial autobiographical trilogy.
Is She or Isn't She? : Roberta Sykes and 'Authentic' Aboriginality Sonja Kurtzer , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 171 2003; (p. 50-56)
[Untitled] Melissa Bellanta , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , June no. 6 2002;

— Review of Snake Dreaming : Autobiography of a Black Woman 1997 series - author
The Production of Whiteness; Revisiting Roberta Sykes's Snake Dreaming Alison Ravenscroft , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: UTS Review , November vol. 7 no. 2 2001; (p. 163-172)
[Untitled] Melissa Bellanta , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , June no. 6 2002;

— Review of Snake Dreaming : Autobiography of a Black Woman 1997 series - author
Is She or Isn't She? : Roberta Sykes and 'Authentic' Aboriginality Sonja Kurtzer , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 171 2003; (p. 50-56)
Snake Dreaming : The Life-Giving and Life-Taking Powers of the Snake M. Dolores Herrero , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 22 no. 1 2005; (p. 73-89)
Analyses the identity dilemmas in Sykes's polemical and controversial autobiographical trilogy.
Voicing Historical Silences in Sally Morgan's My Place and Roberta Sykes' Trilogy Snake Dreaming: A Journey from the Margins to the Centre Through Two Different Paths Elena Oliete , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Explorations in Australian Literature 2006; (p. 17-33)
Basing her analysis on 'theories put forward by Homi Bhabha, William E. Cross and Robert Young among others', Oliete compares Sally Morgan's My Place with Roberta Sykes's Snake Dreaming trilogy 'in order to demonstrate that these two books ... present different perspectives on the same topic: the search of a place in a post-colonial society by hybrid women who strive to get out of the Australian fringe'.
The Production of Whiteness; Revisiting Roberta Sykes's Snake Dreaming Alison Ravenscroft , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: UTS Review , November vol. 7 no. 2 2001; (p. 163-172)
Sykes' Autobiography Labelled Fiction 1998 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 4 November no. 188 1998; (p. 5)
'Award-winning writer Roberta Sykes' autobiography has been labelled 'fiction' by an Aboriginal academic, challenging the author's links with a Queensland Aboriginal community...'
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