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  • Author:agent Catherine Martin http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/martin-catherine
Issue Details: First known date: 1923... 1923 The Incredible Journey
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'First published in 1923, The Incredible Journey tells the story of Iliapa, an Aboriginal woman, who embarks on a long, arduous journey through the Australian outback in search of her son after he is abducted by a white man. Catherine Martin said that she wrote this novel 'in order to put on record, as faithfully as possible, the heroic love and devotion of a black woman when robbed of her child'.'

'The novel presents a vivid picture of the Aboriginal people (viewed through the eyes of a white novelist), their culture, their dispossession and, in particular, this abhorrent white practice of taking Aboriginal children away from their parents.' (Source: Goodreads website)

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Pandora , 1987 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Incredible Journey : Introduction, Margaret Allen , single work criticism (p. vii-xiii)

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The Telling of Marmel's Story Richard Pascal , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 24 no. 2 2009; (p. 54-68)
The essay discusses Brimming Billabongs, 'the first Aboriginal "autobiography", albeit simulated, but also the first fictional narrative to rely upon an Aboriginal character as a focalising persona' (55).
'To Put on Record as Faithfully as Possible' : Catherine Martin Margaret Allen , 2005 single work biography
— Appears in: Uncommon Ground : White Women and Aboriginal History 2005; (p. 241-256)

'...The Incredible Journey, published in 1923, presented a positive view of Indigenous motherhood and raised the issue of stolen children at a time when white public opinion had little interest in or sympathy for these issues... (Source: Allen, Margaret. 'To Put on Record, as Faithfully as Possible': Catherine Martin. New ed. In: Cole, Anna (Editor); Haskins, Victoria (Editor); Paisley, Fiona (Editor). Uncommon Ground: White Women in Aboriginal History. New ed. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005:241)

Ambivalent Eulogy: Catherine Martin's 'The Explorers' Roslynn D. Haynes , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , Winter vol. 41 no. 2 1996; (p. 29-47)
The author argues that 'The Explorers' differs from other literary responses to the tragedy of the Burke and Wills expedition, in focussing on Wills rather than Burke as hero, in its trenchant moral criticism of British society, and in its ambivalent treatment of the terrain the explorers crossed.
Catherine Helen Spence and Catherine Martin Dale Spender , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Writing a New World : Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers 1988; (p. 176-184)
Spender discusses the fact that both Catherine Helen Spence and Catherine Martin were advocates of human rights, using their fiction for social change. Their viewpoints were both Australian and assertively feminine.
Coonardoo : A 1988 Reading of a 1928 Novel Susan Sheridan , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Blast , Winter no. 6/7 1988; (p. 5-6)
Finding Lost Fictions : And the Rehabilitation of Romance Helen Thomson , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 91 1987; (p. 6-7)

— Review of A Black Sheep Ada Cambridge , 1888-1889 single work novel ; The Bond of Wedlock : A Tale of London Life Rosa Praed , 1887 single work novel ; The Incredible Journey Catherine Martin , 1923 single work novel
Untitled 1924 single work review
— Appears in: English Review , January vol. 38 no. 1924; (p. 124)

— Review of The Incredible Journey Catherine Martin , 1923 single work novel
Fine Series of Second-Time-Around Fiction Peter Pierce , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 5 September 1987; (p. 13)

— Review of The Incredible Journey Catherine Martin , 1923 single work novel ; Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land : A Story of Australian Life Rosa Praed , 1915 single work novel ; The Bond of Wedlock : A Tale of London Life Rosa Praed , 1887 single work novel
'To Put on Record as Faithfully as Possible' : Catherine Martin Margaret Allen , 2005 single work biography
— Appears in: Uncommon Ground : White Women and Aboriginal History 2005; (p. 241-256)

'...The Incredible Journey, published in 1923, presented a positive view of Indigenous motherhood and raised the issue of stolen children at a time when white public opinion had little interest in or sympathy for these issues... (Source: Allen, Margaret. 'To Put on Record, as Faithfully as Possible': Catherine Martin. New ed. In: Cole, Anna (Editor); Haskins, Victoria (Editor); Paisley, Fiona (Editor). Uncommon Ground: White Women in Aboriginal History. New ed. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005:241)

Coonardoo : A 1988 Reading of a 1928 Novel Susan Sheridan , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Blast , Winter no. 6/7 1988; (p. 5-6)
Wives and Mothers Like Ourselves, Poor Remnants of a Dying Race : Aborigines in Colonial Women's Writing Susan Sheridan , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 10 no. 1-2 1988; (p. 76-91) Along the Faultlines : Sex, Race and Nation in Australian Women's Writing - 1880s-1930s 1995; (p. 121-134)
Ambivalent Eulogy: Catherine Martin's 'The Explorers' Roslynn D. Haynes , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , Winter vol. 41 no. 2 1996; (p. 29-47)
The author argues that 'The Explorers' differs from other literary responses to the tragedy of the Burke and Wills expedition, in focussing on Wills rather than Burke as hero, in its trenchant moral criticism of British society, and in its ambivalent treatment of the terrain the explorers crossed.
The Incredible Journey : Introduction Margaret Allen , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Incredible Journey 1987; (p. vii-xiii)
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