Linda Westphalen Linda Westphalen i(A974 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 2 y separately published work icon An Anthropological and Literary Study of Two Australian Aboriginal Women's Life Histories An Anthropological and Literary Study of Two Australian Aboriginal Women's Life Histories: The Impacts of Enforced Child Removal and Policies of Assimilation Linda Westphalen , Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press , 2012 Z1934635 2012 single work criticism

'This book examines life history writing by Australian Aboriginal women in the context of Dreaming and ongoing negotiations about one's status and claims to country. It argues that the (auto)biographical narrative is the binding connection between people, Dreaming and Country. It used a methodological combination of literary analysis, history and anthropology to draw out the distinctive cultural heritages held in palimpsest within texts. Indigenous perspectives are preferred. A central theme of the text is the central place of the autobiographical narrative in Indigenous learning systems. It explores the epistemological, theological/​philosophical bases of Indigenous ontology, as well as the impacts of enforced child removal, policies of assimilation and the implications for Indigenous children at present. The book concludes by outlining the important role of Indigenous life-history as part of Australian historical discourse, where Alice Nannup and Ruby Langford Ginibi are both actors in and engaged with the production of discourses about the past.' (Source: TROVE)
1 Dear Aunty Ruby Linda Westphalen , 2012 single work prose
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia , vol. 3 no. 1 2012; (p. 27-31)
1 A Life for the Truth : A Tribute to Ruby Langford Ginibi Oliver Haag , Linda Westphalen , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia , vol. 3 no. 1 2012; (p. 1-7) 'One of the most significant Indigenous Australian authors, Ruby Langford Ginibi, a member of the Bundjalung Nation and the Sydney Koori community, took the courageous step in 1988, the year of the Bicentenary of British colonisation of Australia, of telling a largely ignorant non-Aboriginal audience about what it was like to live her life. She recorded this life in a pivotal text: Don't Take Your Love to Town. This book, as the pages which follow indicate, had a lasting impact on many readers, both in Australia and worldwide. Thus began an extraordinary writing career, a career seemingly out of step with an equally extraordinary life lived in bush camps and subsidised housing, raising nine of her own children and many of other people's, working in backbreaking menial jobs not considered suitable for 'white' women. This edition of the Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia is to honour the life of Dr Aunty Ruby Langford Ginibi, her works and her contributions, large and public, larger and private, to literature and history, in Australia and worldwide, to institutions and individuals.' (Authors introduction, 1)
1 Spaces that 'Speak': Indigenous Life-Histories, Dreaming and Country Linda Westphalen , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Sharing Spaces : Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Responses to Story, Country and Rights 2006; (p. 34-48)
1 y separately published work icon Deadly Lives : Palimpsests in Aboriginal Women's Life-Histories Linda Westphalen , 2002 Z1019322 2002 single work thesis
1 Alice Nannup's `Homes': Cultural Identification and Land in `When the Pelican Laughed' Linda Westphalen , 1998 single work biography
— Appears in: Land and Identity : Proceedings of the 1997 Conference Held at The University of New England Armidale New South Wales 27-30 September 1997 1998; (p. 44-47)
1 Betraying History for Pleasure and Profit : Leon Carmen's 'My Own Sweet Time' Linda Westphalen , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 150 1998; (p. 75-78)
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