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Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 Paperbark : A Collection of Black Australian Writings
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'This is the first collection to span the diverse range of Black Australian writings. Thirty-six Aboriginal and Islander authors have contributed, including David Unaipon, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Gerry Bostock, Ruby Langford, Robert Bropho, Jack Davis, Hyllus Maris, William Ferguson, Sally Morgan, Mudrooroo Narogin and Archie Weller. Many more are represented through community writings such as petitions and letters.

Collected over six years from all the states and territories of Australia, Paperbark ranges widely across time and genre from the 1840s to the present, from transcriptions of oral literature to rock opera. Prose, poetry, song, drama and polemic are accompanied by the selected artworks of Jimmy Pike, and an extensive, up-to-date bibliography.The voices of Black Australia speak with passion and power in this challenging and important anthology.' Source: Publisher's blurb.

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Notes

  • Includes: The Year of Mourning, list of speeches by Gary Foley, Reverend Charles Harris, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Tiga Bayles, Karen Flick. pages 330-332.

    Editors notes:

    The Sydney protests against the Bicentenary which took place on 25-26 January 1988 were historic events which captured the attention of the world. Over 30,000 marchers, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, protested against the celebration of 200 years of European occupation of the continent. The following excerpts are taken from a verbatim transcript of the speeches delivered at the post-march gathering.


Contents

* Contents derived from the St Lucia, Indooroopilly - St Lucia area, Brisbane - North West, Brisbane, Queensland,:University of Queensland Press , 1990 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Note, Oodgeroo Noonuccal , single work autobiography (p. vii-ix)
Paperbark : A Collection of Black Australian Writings : Introduction, single work criticism biography (p. 1-6)
The Legend of Jimmy's Axei"Here is the legend of Jimmy's axe", Archie Weller , single work poetry (p. 9)
Manteenai"And from Manteena's dreams he came", Archie Weller , single work poetry (p. 11)
For Kath Walkeri"My words are like the banksia.", Archie Weller , single work poetry (p. 12)
Ngungalarii"I go. I go. I go.", Archie Weller , single work poetry (p. 13)
The Hunteri"I sing a song to the kangaroo", Archie Weller , single work poetry (p. 14)
The Huntersi"Outside the weather-boarded hall she stands", Archie Weller , single work poetry (p. 15)
Noonkenbahi"My mother's breast", Archie Weller , single work poetry (p. 16)
The Last Songmani"Alone I sit.", Archie Weller , single work poetry (p. 17)
Untitledi"Our songman is a flashing silver king", Archie Weller , single work poetry (p. 18)
Narroondarie's Wives, David Unaipon , single work short story

'Narroondarie is the name of one of the many good men that were sent among the various tribes of the Australian Aborigines...' (David Unaipon, 1924-25)

(p. 19-32)
Wondangar, Goon na Ghun (Whale and Star Fish), David Unaipon , single work short story

A story about the arrival of the strange beings, Wondangar (the Whales) and the Goon Na Ghun (the Star Fishes) to Shoal Haven. (David Unaipon, 1924-25)

(p. 33-52)
Testimony to Gawler Testimony to Gawleri"us the chest beats at his absence", single work poetry (p. 53-54)
I Went to Perth Once Tooi"I went to Perth once too (rasping) -", Paddy Roe , single work poetry (p. 61-63)
"Cuppa Tea" Songi"Woman "Porkupine" tea made", Kunmanara Tur , single work poetry (p. 64)
The Possum Woman, Kunmanara Tur , single work short story (p. 65-66)
Goanna Hibernating Goanna Hibernatingi"in the winter Dead-ant Goanna", Robert Churnside , single work poetry (p. 67-78)
A Story of Wongawol Station, Snowy Hill , single work short story (p. 69-75)
The Letter, Sally Morgan , single work short story (p. 79-81)

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  • Also braille, sound recording.

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— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , 25 May vol. 39 no. 1 2024;

'In recent years, the study of Aboriginal literatures has moved from a marginal interest of Australian literature to a site of global inquiry. Due to limited Aboriginal representation in the formal institutions of literary studies, this shift has arguably not coincided with sufficient reciprocal interpretive mechanisms capable of situating the Aboriginal text in a dynamic relationship with Aboriginal culture. As such, many of these discourses have reconstituted culturally inappropriate anthropological mechanisms in their engagements with contemporary Aboriginal literatures (Araluen, ‘Shame’). The unstable entanglements of power, sovereignty and exclusion that frame the Australian conditions of settler coloniality are manifest in the institutions and disciplines that teach, publish, and interpret Aboriginal literature. In the space of Indigenous research discourse and practice, Ngati Awa and Ngati Porou academic Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s pioneering work on decolonial Indigenous methods and practices, Decolonising Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (1999), demonstrates that the concept of the discipline is not only an organising system of knowledge but also a system of organising people and bodies. She argues that the intellectual productions of nineteenth-century imperialism, including notions of civilisation and the Other, are bound to and assert geographic and economic forces of appropriation, expropriation and incorporation (69). These knowledges not only form academic disciplines but have also been used to discipline the colonised through exclusion, marginalisation and denial.'  (Publication abstract)

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The Study of Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Literature in China Ying Qiong , 2015 single work
— Appears in: Oceanic Literary Studies , no. 2 2015; (p. 236-247)
'Australian Aboriginal literature, a unique genre in Australian Literature, has greatly contributed to its diversity and colorfulness. Its status has improved because of the awaking of Aboriginal people and constant emerging of Aboriginal writers. This paper emphatically probes into three stages, reviews the Australian Aboriginal literature studies in China and discusses some of the major characteristics. Remarkable achievements have been made in the past thirty years, but there still exist some problems, including inadequate sense of Aboriginality, lack of diachronic and holistic study of a writer's thoughts, inadequate research on the works of Aboriginal writers born after the 1960s.' (236-237)
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— Appears in: The BlackWords Essays 2015; (p. 5) The BlackWords Essays 2019;

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— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 3 2014;

'Since its launch in 2007 BlackWords has enjoyed strong Indigenous leadership and a dedicated Indigenous team, allowing Indigenous storytellers, academics and researchers to determine its look, content, and scope. The BlackWords team of researchers and indexers is a community consisting of individuals from across institutions such as the University of Queensland, the University of Western Australia, Flinders University, the University of Sydney, the University of Wollongong and AIATSIS, each of whom has brought their own expertise and specialist interest to the database (BlackWords; Holt; Kilner 62). ' (Author's introduction)

Sheltering Behind Images of Love and Life Reba Gostand , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 9 no. 3 1990; (p. 66-67)

— Review of A Body of Water : A Year's Notebook Beverley Farmer , 1990 selected work autobiography short story poetry diary ; The Honey-Ant Men's Love Song and Other Aboriginal Song Poems 1990 anthology poetry criticism biography ; Taking Shelter Jessica Anderson , 1989 single work novel ; Paperbark : A Collection of Black Australian Writings 1990 anthology poetry drama short story criticism prose autobiography biography
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— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 20 August no. 4716 1993; (p. 4-5)

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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 6 October 1990; (p. B8)

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Australian Literature, Black and White 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , May vol. 69 no. 1004 1990; (p. 28)

— Review of Paperbark : A Collection of Black Australian Writings 1990 anthology poetry drama short story criticism prose autobiography biography
Rare Gems Fill a Paperbark Treasure-Trove Roberta Sykes , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 19 May 1990; (p. 8)

— Review of Paperbark : A Collection of Black Australian Writings 1990 anthology poetry drama short story criticism prose autobiography biography
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Black and White : In Search of an ‘Apt’ Response to Indigenous Writing Robin Freeman , 2010 single work criticism
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— Appears in: The Independent Monthly , August vol. 2 no. 2 1990; (p. 36-38)
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