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'Wild Cat Falling is the story of an Aboriginal youth, a 'bodgie' of the early sixties who grows up on the ragged outskirts of a country town, falls into petty crime, goes to gaol, and comes out to do battle once more with the society who put him there. Its publication in 1965 marked a unique literary event, for this was the first novel by any writer of Aboriginal blood to be published in Australia. As well, it is a remarkable piece of literature in its own right, expressing the dilemmas and conflicts of the young Aboriginal in modern Australian society with its memorable insight and stylishness.' (Publication summary)
Adaptations
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Wild Cat Falling
1992
single work
drama
'Nineteen-year old anti-hero Wildcat has been released from Fremantle Jail after serving an eighteen-month sentence for juvenile offences. The play shifts from real time to memory as Wildcat re-experiences growing up in a small country town, being sent to Swanview Boys' Home and being a member of a bodgie gang in Perth in the late 1950s.' (Source: Australian Plays website)
Notes
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A stage production, adapted and directed by Alan Becher with music by David Milroy, was performed in 1992. Reviews of that production are attached to this record.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Braille.
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
- y Wild Cat Falling, Mudrooroo : In the Context of Identity and Belonging Essendon North : Radiant Heart Publishing , 2015 8919410 2015 single work criticism
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The Postcolonial Autobiography : Force Majeure?
2015
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Autobiography as a Writing Strategy in Postcolonial Literature 2015; (p. 161-178) -
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Exploring Issues of Identity and Belonging
Seven Hills
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Five Senses Education
,
2014
9010570
2014
selected work
criticism
'Study notes and a workshop approach to Ray Lawler's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Patti Miller's The Mind of the Thief, Mudrooroo's Wild Cat Falling, Anthony Fabian's Skin.' (Publication summary)
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The Yellow House
2014
single work
autobiography
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 3 2014; (p. 62-76) -
A Study of the Australian Aboriginal Novel Wild Cat Falling from the Perspective of Postcolonialism
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of University of Science and Technology of Suzhou (Social Science) , vol. [2013] no. 6 2013; (p. 35-39)
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The Long and the Short
1965
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 25 no. 2 1965; (p. 141-143)
— Review of Harry's Child 1964 single work novel ; No Saddles for Kangaroos : A Novel 1964 single work novel ; Wild Cat Falling 1965 single work novel -
New Novels
1965
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 32 1965; (p. 43-45)
— Review of Harry's Child 1964 single work novel ; Across the Sea Wall 1965 single work novel ; Mayor's Nest 1964 single work novel ; Wild Cat Falling 1965 single work novel -
[Review] Wild Cat Falling
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , November vol. 4 no. 3 1992; (p. 91-92)
— Review of Real Deadly 1992 selected work poetry prose extract ; Wild Cat Falling 1965 single work novel -
[Review] Wild Cat Falling
1965
single work
review
— Appears in: Advocate: A Weekly Catholic Journal , 1 April 1965; (p. 18)
— Review of Wild Cat Falling 1965 single work novel -
[Review] Wild Cat Falling
1965
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , May no. 1 1965; (p. 70-71)
— Review of Wild Cat Falling 1965 single work novel - y Aboriginal Experience Glebe : Pascal Press , 1994 Z1019180 1994 single work criticism
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form
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Aboriginal Experience
Martin Didsbury
,
1994
Z1019197
1994
single work
film/TV
'The stories told by Ruby Langford Ginibi in Don't Take Your Love to Town, Sally Morgan My Place, and Mudrooroo in Wild Cat Falling provide the starting point for discussions on some of the key events and issues that have affected Aboriginal people.
Part 1: 'Aboriginal Experience' looks at the practice of removing Aboriginal children from their families, and denial of Aboriginality and equal rights. Part 2: 'Reclaiming Identity' looks at the importance of the family and the land to Aboriginal people and their quest to reclaim their identity.'
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From 'Black' Caesar to Mudrooroo : The African Diaspora in Australia
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Mongrel Signatures : Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo 2003; (p. 25-41) -
Reality Rights in the Wildcat Trilogy
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Mongrel Signatures : Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo 2003; (p. 43-64) -
Voice of Australia: Who Speaks for the Aborigine?
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Interfaces 2004; (p. 18-29) Roy examines the 'legitimacy of the speaking subject' and concludes that 'If the speaking status of the aboriginal writer is legitimised merely by identity markers like whiteness and blackness, non-aboriginal writers like Wositzky would naturally be denied entry. However, they could claim speaking rights by speaking space of writing. Mudrooroo or Morgan are no more privileged than Wositzky in articulating primordial aboriginal identities. On the other hand, finding a vantage point in the discursive space of orality can help them archive, if not recover, aboriginal voice.'
- Perth, Western Australia,
- Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,