y separately published work icon Kullark / The Dreamers selected work   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 1982... 1982 Kullark / The Dreamers
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* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Currency Press , 1982 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Dreamers, Jack Davis , single work drama

'With humane irony the Western Australian poet, Jack Davis gives a painful insight into the process of colonisation and the transformation of his people.'

'The Dreamers is the story of a country-town family and old Uncle Worru, who in his dying days, recedes from urban hopelessness to the life and language of the Nyoongah spirit which in him has survived 'civilisation'.' (Currency Press website)

 (p. 67-139)
Kullark, Jack Davis , single work drama

'Kullark has been described as a 'documentary on the history of Aboriginals in WA.' The action begins with a version of the first contact between Europeans and the Noongar peoples, culminating in the death of Yagan in 1833, and covers the forcible separation of families and communities, and removal to reserves, and the ongoing discrimination against Indigenous people.' (Source: cited from AusStage website)
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