Karen Hughes Karen Hughes i(A98157 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Stories My Grandmother Never Told Me: Recovering Entangled Family Histories Through Ego-Histoire Karen Hughes , 2014 single work essay biography
— Appears in: Ngapartji Ngapartji, in Turn, in Turn : Ego-histoire, Europe and Indigenous Australia 2014; (p. 75-91)

'In 1997, I accompanied the oldest Ngarrindjeri person, the distinguished storyteller, Aunty Hilda Wilson, then aged 86 and becoming a staunch friend, home to Country, to the Aboriginal community of Raukkan, the former Point McLeay Mission on the southern edge of Lake Alexandrina. Aunty Hilda was born there in 1911, a year that marked the legal separation of South Australian Aboriginal and settler peoples with the passing of the SA Aborigines Act 1911.2 As we stepped onto the shore of Lake Alexandrina, she led me to a clump of rushes in the sand, where her mother, Olive Varcoe (née Rankine), once sat and picked the fine but sturdy fibres with her sisters and Country-women, weaving the famous Ngarrindjeri baskets for sale and personal use. The women washed clothes here in a kerosene-tin over an open fire, gossiped and laughed, cared for little ones, and discussed important business. Aunty Hilda soon told me of sitting patiently alongside her great-grandmother, Ellen Sumner (1842–1925), at large ceremonial gatherings near this site during the 1910s and 1920s. From Ellen Sumner, renowned composer and singer, she also learnt Pata Winema, ‘the old corroborree song’. Hilda claimed to discern the meaning of only one of its lyrics, lieuwen: to ‘lay down’, ‘sleep’ or ‘rest’. Many believe this was adapted as a sorcery song against settlers for the destruction their intrusion brought (Bell 1998, p. 155).' (Introduction)

1 Introduction: ‘Ngapartji Ngapartji: In Turn, In Turn’—Ego-histoire and Australian Indigenous Studies Vanessa Castejon , Anna Cole , Oliver Haag , Karen Hughes , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Ngapartji Ngapartji, in Turn, in Turn : Ego-histoire, Europe and Indigenous Australia 2014; (p. 3-19)

'These are stories, histories. They emerged in part from encounters between scholars from Australia and Europe that offered a transnational way to think about culture, class, ethnicity, identity, inbetweenness and whiteness in Australian Indigenous studies. Our intention was to weave together professional and personal accounts of studies that have Australia and Indigeneity at their heart. The origins of this book lie in a discussion between Anna Cole and Vanessa Castejon that took place after a European Australian Studies conference at the Universitat de Barcelona’s Centre d’Estudis Australians in 2008. Over breakfast they wondered why many of the Australian scholars speaking on Indigenous topics at the conference did not reflect on their role in representing Indigenous Australia in and to Europe, despite the achievements of self-determination and self-reflexivity. That this conversation took place one morning in Barcelona—the place that Vanessa’s parents had been exiled from during the Spanish civil war—was significant. The power of place to unlock stories and to allow them to be felt and have an impact was something we had learned to articulate from working alongside Indigenous Australian historians and cultural custodians. So Vanessa and Anna started with themselves, trying to understand more about how their histories fed their motivations to work in Australian Indigenous history. Subsequently Anna and Vanessa were invited by John Docker, Ann Curthoys and Frances Peters-Little to publish these ego-histoires in Passionate Histories (Peters-Little, Curthoys & Docker, 2010) and so began the process of taking ego-histoire out of its strictly European origins and into ‘a broader history of colonialism and postcolonialism’ (Curthoys, 2012).' (Introduction)

1 1 y separately published work icon Ngapartji Ngapartji, in Turn, in Turn : Ego-histoire, Europe and Indigenous Australia Vanessa Castejon (editor), Anna Cole (editor), Oliver Haag (editor), Karen Hughes (editor), Acton : Australian National University Press , 2014 8146885 2014 selected work criticism essay

''These are stories, histories. They emerged in part from encounters between scholars from Australia and Europe that offered a transnational way to think about culture, class, ethnicity, identity, inbetweenness and whiteness in Australian Indigenous studies. Our intention was to weave together professional and personal accounts of studies that have Australia and Indigeneity at their heart. The origins of this book lie in a discussion between Anna Cole and Vanessa Castejon that took place after a European Australian Studies conference at the Universitat de Barcelona’s Centre d’Estudis Australians in 2008.' (Source: Introduction)' (Source: Introduction)

1 Becoming Rosalind’s Daughter : Reflections on Intercultural Kinship and Embodied Histories Karen Hughes , 2013 single work criticism essay
— Appears in: The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia , vol. 4 no. 1-2 2013; (p. 76-91)

'Taking a reflexive and auto-ethnographic approach, this article explores the unique process of transcultural adoption by which Aboriginal people have selectively extended their family formations to include as well as "manage" outsiders.' (Source: abstract)

1 Challienging the Moral Issues of his Time : Proud Ngarrindjeri Man of the Coorong, Thomas Edwin Trevorrow (1945-2013) Karen Hughes , 2013 single work obituary
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , December vol. 37 no. 2013; (p. 111-116)
1 Fluid Waters : Cultural Exchange in the Land of the Ngarrindjeri, a Poetics and a Politics Karen Hughes , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Le Simplegadi , November no. 8 2010; (p. 24-35)
1 It Sounds Important Karen Hughes , 1979 single work short story
— Appears in: Stories of Her Life : An Anthology of Short Stories by Australian Women 1979; (p. 69-70)
1 Untitled i "my ovaries", Karen Hughes , 1975 single work poetry
— Appears in: Dharma , March no. 15 1975; (p. 20)
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