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Dedication: To Elaine Castaneda
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- Also braille and sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Aboriginal Affair(s): Reflections on the Life of Mudrooroo
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: LINQ , December no. 39 2012; (p. 105-115)'The article reviews the controversial 'Mudrooroo Affair' with reference to unpublished work by Mudrooroo in which he comments on the public debate about his rights to define himself as Aboriginal and, by extension, have his work credited as Aboriginal. Such work makes it pertinent to review Mudrooroo's creative output since 1965 as literary experiments with life writing and to reconsider Mudrooroo's many literary 'performances' from this perspective. They are not only explorations of Aboriginal identity politics over,- the last five decades, but may also be seen as a far more personal investment in exploring Aboriginal identity through a progressively shifting but interrelated series of subjectivities that reflect the writer's own experience and inform his claim to Aboriginality.' (Publication summary)
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Colin Johnson : A Survey
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth Literary Cultures : New Voices, New Approaches : Conference Papers, Lecce, 3-7 April, 1990 1993; (p. 419-428) -
Kings in Kimberley Watercourses : Sadism and Pastoralism
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Span , October no. 36 1993; (p. 541-559) - y Mudrooroo : A Critical Study Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1993 Z213563 1993 single work criticism
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History as Texts : Pigeon the 'Bushranger'
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Textual Spaces : Aboriginality and Cultural Studies 1992; (p. 60-75) 'One of the main problems for Aboriginal history, as I see it, is to authenticate the appropriate discourse for its transmission, and this issue has been hotly debated. At one point the 'authentic' accounts of Aboriginal history were firmly locked in academic standard English. But going back to 1981 we find an Aboriginal working party for the Bicentennial History Project challenging the assumptions of historians that history and the language in which history is presented are somehow independent of each other: 'When the cues, the repetitions, the language, the distinctively Aboriginal evocations of our experience are removed from the recitals of our people, the truth is lost to us. (Langton, 1981)) (60)
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Recent Fiction : Futurism and Other Projections
1980
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 39 no. 2 1980; (p. 260-269)
— Review of A Woman of the Future 1979 single work novel ; Long Live Sandawara : A Novel 1979 single work novel ; Confederates 1979 single work novel ; Hemlock 1979 single work novel ; The Twyborn Affair 1979 single work novel -
Untitled
1980
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 25 no. 2 1980; (p. 121-122)
— Review of Long Live Sandawara : A Novel 1979 single work novel -
Why Australia's Black Revolution Came Undone
1979
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 September 1979; (p. 26)
— Review of Long Live Sandawara : A Novel 1979 single work novel ; Unicorn Among the Wattles 1979 single work novel -
Colin Johnson : A Survey
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth Literary Cultures : New Voices, New Approaches : Conference Papers, Lecce, 3-7 April, 1990 1993; (p. 419-428) -
History as Texts : Pigeon the 'Bushranger'
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Textual Spaces : Aboriginality and Cultural Studies 1992; (p. 60-75) 'One of the main problems for Aboriginal history, as I see it, is to authenticate the appropriate discourse for its transmission, and this issue has been hotly debated. At one point the 'authentic' accounts of Aboriginal history were firmly locked in academic standard English. But going back to 1981 we find an Aboriginal working party for the Bicentennial History Project challenging the assumptions of historians that history and the language in which history is presented are somehow independent of each other: 'When the cues, the repetitions, the language, the distinctively Aboriginal evocations of our experience are removed from the recitals of our people, the truth is lost to us. (Langton, 1981)) (60)
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Kings in Kimberley Watercourses : Sadism and Pastoralism
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Span , October no. 36 1993; (p. 541-559) -
Fact and Historical Fiction
1982
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , December vol. 27 no. 4 1982; (p. 73-79) -
Perth or the Bush? Sense of Place in the Novels of Colin Johnson
1986
single work
criticism
— Appears in: A Sense of Place in the New Literatures in English 1986; (p. 97-111)
- Perth, Western Australia,