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Issue Details: First known date: 1979... 1979 Manganinnie
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During the black drive of 1830, Manganinnie, an old Aboriginal woman, becomes separated from her tribe. Alone, she waits, seeking comfort from her firestick. Dremereeene, the ancestral spirit, sends her something precious to care for and love. (Libraries Australia)

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Manganinnie Ken Kelso , ( dir. John Honey ) Hobart : Tasmanian Film Corporation , 1980 Z795148 1980 single work film/TV children's historical fiction

While fleeing the 1830 genocide of Tasmanian Aboriginals, Manganinnie rescues a tiny lost white child. Together they find compassion, love, and a bond that delivers them from desperation, loneliness, and the terror of pursuit.

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Japanese translation.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Macmillan , 1979 .
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      Extent: 112p.
      Description: illus., map.
      ISBN: 0333298756
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Sun Books , 1980 .
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      Extent: 111p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Cover subtitle: a story of old Tasmania
      ISBN: 0725103582
    • Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,: Rainbow Books , 1999 .
      Extent: 122p.
      Edition info: 9th ed.
      Description: map
      ISBN: 0958788170
Alternative title: Manganinnie et l'enfant vole
Language: French
    • Paris,
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      France,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Flammarion ,       1985 .
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      Extent: 220p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1998
      Note/s:
      • Illustrated by Solvej Crevelier.
      • Series: Castor poche ; 122
      ISBN: 2081618338
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  • Also braille, sound recording.
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Screening the Australian Novel, 1971-2020 Imelda Whelehan , Claire McCarthy , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023;
y separately published work icon The Roving Party : Extinction Discourse in the Literature of Tasmania Rohan Wilson , 2009 Z1775389 2009 single work thesis 'The nineteenth century discourse of extinction - a consensus of thought primarily based upon the assumption that 'savage' races would be displaced by the arrival of European civilisation - provided the intellectual foundation for policies which resulted in Aboriginal dispossession, internment, and death in Tasmania. For a long time, the Aboriginal Tasmanians were thought to have been annihilated. However, this claim is now understood to be fanciful. Aboriginality is no longer defined as a racial category but rather as an identity that has its basis in community. Nevertheless, extinction discourse continues to shape the features of modern literature about Tasmania.

'The first chapter of this dissertation will examine how extinction discourse was imagined in the nineteenth century and will trace the parallels that contemporary fiction about contact history shares with it. The novels examined include Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World by Mudrooroo, The Savage Crows by Robert Drewe, Manganinnie by Beth Roberts, and Wanting by Richard Flanagan. The extinctionist elements in these novels include a tendency to euglogise about the 'lost race' and a reliance on the trope of the last man or woman.

'The second chapter of the dissertation will examine novels that attempt to construct a representation of Aboriginality without reference to extinction. These texts subvert and ironise extinction discourse as a way of breaking the discursive continuities with colonialism and establishing a more nuanced view of Aboriginal identity in a post-colonial context. Novels analysed here include Drift by Brian Castro, Elysium by Robert Edric, and English Passengers by Matthew Kneale. However, in attempting to arrive at new understandings about Aboriginality, non-Aboriginal authors are hindered by the epistemological difficulties of knowing and representing the Other. In particular, they seem unable to extricate themselves from the binaries of colonialism.' (Trove)
Beth Roberts 'Manganinnie' : Authenticity and Reconstruction in the German Version of an Australian Children's Classic. Christa Margarete Christa , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Translation and Textlinguistics , vol. 12 no. 1999; (p. 76-84)
Manganinnie Peter Pierce , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Country of Lost Children : An Australian Anxiety 1999; (p. 164-168)
Untitled Kevin Steinberger , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 37 no. 4 1993; (p. 33)
— Review of Manganinnie Beth Roberts , 1979 single work novel
Untitled Kevin Steinberger , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 37 no. 4 1993; (p. 33)
— Review of Manganinnie Beth Roberts , 1979 single work novel
Manganinnie Given Even More Integrity Guy Parsons , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Mercury , 2 October 1993; (p. 28)
— Review of Manganinnie Beth Roberts , 1979 single work novel
Tassie Book Bound for Land of Nippon Dani Hayes (interviewer), 1987 single work interview
— Appears in: The Mercury , 28 February 1987;
Beth Roberts 'Manganinnie' : Authenticity and Reconstruction in the German Version of an Australian Children's Classic. Christa Margarete Christa , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Translation and Textlinguistics , vol. 12 no. 1999; (p. 76-84)
y separately published work icon The Roving Party : Extinction Discourse in the Literature of Tasmania Rohan Wilson , 2009 Z1775389 2009 single work thesis 'The nineteenth century discourse of extinction - a consensus of thought primarily based upon the assumption that 'savage' races would be displaced by the arrival of European civilisation - provided the intellectual foundation for policies which resulted in Aboriginal dispossession, internment, and death in Tasmania. For a long time, the Aboriginal Tasmanians were thought to have been annihilated. However, this claim is now understood to be fanciful. Aboriginality is no longer defined as a racial category but rather as an identity that has its basis in community. Nevertheless, extinction discourse continues to shape the features of modern literature about Tasmania.

'The first chapter of this dissertation will examine how extinction discourse was imagined in the nineteenth century and will trace the parallels that contemporary fiction about contact history shares with it. The novels examined include Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World by Mudrooroo, The Savage Crows by Robert Drewe, Manganinnie by Beth Roberts, and Wanting by Richard Flanagan. The extinctionist elements in these novels include a tendency to euglogise about the 'lost race' and a reliance on the trope of the last man or woman.

'The second chapter of the dissertation will examine novels that attempt to construct a representation of Aboriginality without reference to extinction. These texts subvert and ironise extinction discourse as a way of breaking the discursive continuities with colonialism and establishing a more nuanced view of Aboriginal identity in a post-colonial context. Novels analysed here include Drift by Brian Castro, Elysium by Robert Edric, and English Passengers by Matthew Kneale. However, in attempting to arrive at new understandings about Aboriginality, non-Aboriginal authors are hindered by the epistemological difficulties of knowing and representing the Other. In particular, they seem unable to extricate themselves from the binaries of colonialism.' (Trove)
Manganinnie Peter Pierce , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Country of Lost Children : An Australian Anxiety 1999; (p. 164-168)
Screening the Australian Novel, 1971-2020 Imelda Whelehan , Claire McCarthy , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023;
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