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'Dark Dreams: Australian refugee stories is a unique anthology of essays, interviews, and stories written by children and young adults. The stories are the finest of hundreds collected through a nationwide schools competition in 2002. The essays and stories represent many different countries and themes. Some focus on survival, some on horrors, some on the experiences and alienation of a new world. This book will have a a key role to play in schools across Australia. Eva Sallis's first novel Hiam won The Australian Vogel and the Dobbie Literary Awards. She is co-founder of Australians Against Racism and is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide. 'Stories to melt the hardest heart.' - Helen Garner 'We have not been allowed to know the (recent) refugees as human beings ...These stories change all that and force a personal response from the reader.' - Phillip Adams' (Publication summary)
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Stories by young writers aged 11-20 years.
Contents
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What Does Australia Want?,
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The author interviews teenage boys about their experiences as refugees.
- Experience as Refugee, single work autobiography (p. 15-17)
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Lucie's Story : Love and Danger
Interview with an Australian Refugee : Lucie Pollak-Langford,
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biography
(p. 18-21)
Note: With title: Lucie's Story : Love and Danger
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Broken Hearts,
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'Imagine you've got no nationality, nowhere to live, no money, no country wants you and ... you've got no family.' The author tells the story of illegal refugee Michael.
- Far from Home : Thinh's Journey to Safety, single work biography (p. 25-34)
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Five Months,
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The story of a refugee from Aeritrea.
- Waleed Alkhazrajy : Perserverance Personified, single work biography (p. 41-46)
- The Waves to Freedom : The Story of Nga-Huynh Diep, single work biography (p. 47-52)
- To Be Someone, single work autobiography (p. 53-56)
- An Interview with Ali, single work essay (p. 57-59)
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Blackbirding : The Loss of an Idyllic Lifestyle,
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The author talks about her Islander ancestors who were taken as slaves to Queensland.
- From a Small Detention Centre I am Now in a Bigger Detention Centre : The Story of an Afghan Refugee, single work biography (p. 62-67)
- Untitled, single work autobiography (p. 71-75)
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The Place Where God Died,
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The experiences of a Kosovo Albanian family in the Port Hedland Detention Centre.
- A Refugee, single work autobiography (p. 83-91)
- A Story of a Life, single work biography (p. 92-94)
- Taha's Story : Adam's Version, single work essay (p. 95-97)
- Taha's Story : Chelsea's Version, single work essay (p. 98-100)
- The Scar, single work essay (p. 101-103)
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The Blue Eyes that Grieve,
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The story of a family drowned in an attempt to reach Australia and safety told through the eyes of the only survivor, a young girl.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Detention, Displacement and Dissent in Recent Australian Life Writing
2011
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— Appears in: Life Writing , December vol. 8 no. 4 2011; (p. 375-385) Narratives of persecution, imprisonment, displacement and exile have been a fundamental aspect of Australian literature: from the convict narratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to writing by refugees and migrants to Australia following World War II, to the narratives of those displaced by more recent conflicts. This paper will focus on two texts published in Australia in the past few years which deal with experiences of persecution and displacement from Afghanistan. Mahboba's Promise (2005) and The Rugmaker of Mazar-e- Sharif (2008) are texts that have to some extent bypassed the quarantining that Gillian Whitlock has argued works to locate potentially disruptive discourse at a safe distance from mainstream consumption. The publications discussed here demonstrate that refugee narratives can negotiate their way into the public sphere and public consciousness. In this process, however, representations of dissent almost necessarily give way to conciliation and integration as former refugee subjects attempt to realign their lives in terms that will provide the best outcomes for themselves, their families and their communities. -
Dialogue and Decentralisation in Australian Asylum Anthologies
2010
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— Appears in: Life Writing , December vol. 7 no. 3 2010; (p. 285-302) 'In Australia, the field of contemporary creative representation of asylum is enriched by diverse non-professional and community-based work, including self-narratives by asylum seekers and refugees. This essay situates three Australian asylum anthologies as products of heterogeneous community engagements and dialogues...In each anthology, a range of subject types - men, women and children from different ethnic, cultural, religious and educational backgrounds - coalesces so that a diversity of voices is presented within the privileged space of the book. Drawing lines of rhizomatic connection between autonomous sections of society, the texts map the grassroots structures of support, advocacy and community within which relations between asylum seekers, refugees and Australians operate. In each, writers engage in acts of speaking across the borders of language, culture, education and power, claiming a subaltern stake in cosmopolitan conversation.' (Author's abstract p. 285) -
Children in Detention : Juvenile Authors Recollect Refugee Stories
2007
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— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 17 no. 2 2007; (p. 67-74) Helff notes the growing trend in children's fiction and autobiographical writing 'of stories about young people who are deprived of their homes and ambivalently caught between cultures' (67) She analyzes two short stories from the collection Dark Dreams: Australian Refugee Stories by Young Writers aged 11-20 Years and argues that Dark Dreams 'invites readers to follow the juvenile writers to re-think and challenge the construction of Australian national identity, belonging and history' (67). She points out that 'storytellers, writers and readers participate in and contribute in a life-shaping act that includes the sharing of trauma and guilt' in ways that make it possible for new reflections upon the self in Australian history' (72). As such, she claims the project 'Australia IS refugees! and the short stories collected in Dark Dreams contribute to a critical egagement with Australian national identity, questions of belonging and Australian history making' (72). -
Of Murmels and Snigs : Detention-Centre Narratives in Australian Literature for Children and Young Adults
2006
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review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 185 2006; (p. 38-42)
— Review of From Nothing to Zero : Letters from Refugees in Australia's Detention Centres 2003 anthology correspondence ; Walk in My Shoes 2004 single work novel ; Dark Dreams : Australian Refugee Stories 2004 anthology autobiography biography essay poetry ; Alyzon Whitestarr 2005 single work novel ; No Place Like Home : Australian Stories by Young Writers Aged 8-21 Years 2005 anthology biography short story autobiography essay ; Number 8 2006 single work novel ; Boy Overboard 2002 single work children's fiction ; Girl Underground 2004 single work children's fiction ; Soraya the Storyteller 2004 single work children's fiction ; Ali the Bold Heart 2006 single work picture book ; Another Country 2004 anthology poetry autobiography prose diary correspondence ; Refugees 2003 single work picture book ; The Slightly Bruised Glory of Cedar B. Hartley (Who Can't Help Flying High and Falling in Deep) 2005 single work children's fiction ; Dancing the Boom-Cha-Cha Boogie 2005 single work picture book ; Dreaming Australia 2004 single work novel -
[Review] Dark Dreams : Australian Refugee Stories
2004
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— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 18 no. 2 2004; (p. 22)
— Review of Dark Dreams : Australian Refugee Stories 2004 anthology autobiography biography essay poetry
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Stories
2004
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review
— Appears in: The Age , 3 April 2004; (p. 6)
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[Review] Dark Dreams : Australian Refugee Stories
2004
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— Appears in: The Bulletin , 13 April vol. 122 no. 6416 2004; (p. 64)
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Harrowing Tales of Refugees
2004
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review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 24 April 2004; (p. 8)
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In Short : Non-Fiction
2004
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review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 May 2004; (p. 13)
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Young Readers
2004
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review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12-13 June 2004; (p. 15)
— Review of Dark Dreams : Australian Refugee Stories 2004 anthology autobiography biography essay poetry ; Candles at Dawn 1997 single work novel -
Harrowing Stories Put Human Face to the Plight of Refugees
2004
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 March 2004; (p. 14) -
Shades of Grey
2004
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— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 12 no. 2 2004; (p. 28-29) -
Children in Detention : Juvenile Authors Recollect Refugee Stories
2007
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criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 17 no. 2 2007; (p. 67-74) Helff notes the growing trend in children's fiction and autobiographical writing 'of stories about young people who are deprived of their homes and ambivalently caught between cultures' (67) She analyzes two short stories from the collection Dark Dreams: Australian Refugee Stories by Young Writers aged 11-20 Years and argues that Dark Dreams 'invites readers to follow the juvenile writers to re-think and challenge the construction of Australian national identity, belonging and history' (67). She points out that 'storytellers, writers and readers participate in and contribute in a life-shaping act that includes the sharing of trauma and guilt' in ways that make it possible for new reflections upon the self in Australian history' (72). As such, she claims the project 'Australia IS refugees! and the short stories collected in Dark Dreams contribute to a critical egagement with Australian national identity, questions of belonging and Australian history making' (72). -
Literary Fair
2004
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— Appears in: Kalimat : An International Periodical of English and Arabic Creative Writing , September no. 19 (English) 2004; (p. 9-15) -
Eva Sallis : Creativity in Literature and Politics
2004
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— Appears in: Kalimat : An International Periodical of English and Arabic Creative Writing , June no. 18 (Arabic) 2004; (p. 31-40)