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Issue Details: First known date: 1983... 1983 Gularabulu : Stories from the West Kimberley
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Gularabulu, 'the coast where the sun goes down' is an area of country on the coast of the West Kimberley in the north-west of Western Australia. These stories belong not just to Paddy Roe but to all the people from the traditional tribal groupings of the Garadjeri, Nyigina, Yaour, Nyul-nyul and Djaber-djaber tribes.

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Notes

  • "The stories as they are presented here are word for word transcriptions from tape recordings. Hesitations and the occasional interventions from a listener are included.... These stories represent the continuation of an Aboriginal oral narrative technique.' Source: Introdction by Stephen Muecke.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,:Fremantle Press , 1983 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Gularabulu : Stories from the West Kimberley : Introduction, Stephen Muecke , single work criticism (p. i-ix)
Mirdinan, Paddy Roe , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 1-17)
Duegara, Paddy Roe , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 19-28)
Worawora Woman, Paddy Roe , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 29-34)
Yaam, Paddy Roe , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 35-44)
Donkey Devil : Story One, Paddy Roe , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 45-50)
Donkey Devil : Story Two, Paddy Roe , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 51-55)
Lardi, Paddy Roe , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 57-64)
Living Ghost : Story One, Paddy Roe , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 65-69)
Living Ghost : Story Two, Paddy Roe , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 70)
Living Ghost : Story Three, Paddy Roe , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 71-74)
Djaringgalong, Paddy Roe , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 75-82)
Langgur, Paddy Roe , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 83-92)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 1983 .
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      Extent: vii, 98p.p.
      Description: illus., port.
      ISBN: 0909144656
    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 1993 .
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      Extent: xii, 98 p.p.
      Description: illus., port.
      ISBN: 1863680586
    • Crawley, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 2016 .
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      Extent: 160p.
      Edition info: Revised ed.
      Note/s:
      • Published November 2016
      • This is a revised edition, some Aboriginal words have alternative spellings.
      ISBN: 9781742589145

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Six Groundings for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Story in the Australian Creative Writing Classroom: Part 2 Paul Collis , Jen Crawford , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 22 no. 2 2018;

‘All Australian children deserve to know the country that they share through the stories that Aboriginal people can tell them,’ write Gladys Idjirrimoonra Milroy and Jill Milroy (2008: 42). If country and story, place and voice are intertwined, it is vital that we make space in Australian creative writing classrooms for the reading and writing of Australian Indigenous story. What principles and questions can allow us to begin? We propose six groundings for this work:

  1. Indigenous story is literary history, literary history is creative power.
  2. We do culture together: culture becomes in collaboration, conscious or unconscious.
  3. There is no such thing as Indigenous story, and yet it can be performed and known.
  4. Country speaks, to our conceptions of voice and point of view.
  5. History and memory are written in the land and on the body in bodies of practice.
  6. Story transmits narrative responsibility. Narrative responsibility requires fierce listening.

'This two-part paper discusses each of these groundings as orienting and motivating principles for work we do as teachers of introductory creative writing units at the University of Canberra. Part 1 discussed the first three groundings and was published in TEXT Vol 21, No 2, October 2017. Part 2 discusses the remaining three groundings.'  (Publication abstract)

[Review Essay] Gularabulu : Stories from the West Kimberley Ashleigh Blechynden , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2017; (p. 103-105)

'Gularabulu is an engaging collection of stories from the West Kimberley, told by Paddy Roe, a Nyigina man and prolific storyteller who lived in Broome, Western Australia, from 1912 to 2001. Roe was a fully initiated senior law man who played a central role in reviving and maintaining Aboriginal law and culture in the Broome area in the mid-twentieth century.'  (Introduction)

Phillip Hall Reviews Gularabulu by Paddy Roe (with Stephen Muecke) Phillip Hall , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2017;

— Review of Gularabulu : Stories from the West Kimberley 1983 selected work criticism life story oral history
Talking Country Jeanine Leane , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 21 no. 1 2017;
'Gularabulu is a collection of nine stories told by Nyigina Elder, Paddy Roe, from Broome and transcribed, as spoken to settler academic, Professor Stephen Muecke, in the late 1970s. Its publication in 1983 was groundbreaking as it invited the settler, as a respectful listener into the rich history and stories of the Country of the West Kimberley. ' (Introduction)
Paddy Roe, Gularabulu : Stories from the West Kimberley Per Henningsgaard , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 9 no. 2 2017;

'In the introduction to Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley, Stephen Muecke writes,

Presenting the stories as narrative art is a way of justifying a writing which tries to imitate the spoken word. When language is read as poetic, it is the form of the language itself, as well as its underlying content, which is important. Just as it would be unjustifiable to rewrite a poet’s work into ‘correct’ English (in other words to take away the poet’s ‘license’), so it would be unjustifiable to rewrite the words of Paddy Roe’s stories.

Muecke’s assertion that the ‘form’ of Paddy Roe’s words matter, and furthermore that it would be ‘unjustifiable’ to rewrite Roe’s stories, takes on a special significance in this particular edition of Gularabulu. After all, the UWA Publishing edition of Gularabulu, published in 2016, follows in the wake of the original 1983 edition as well as a 1993 edition, both published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press. The existence of three editions of this particular book is a testament to its enduring value, but it also presents an opportunity for interrogation.' (Introduction)

Untitled Ian Templeman , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Centre Broadsheet , May - June vol. 2 no. 3 1983; (p. 1-2)

— Review of Gularabulu : Stories from the West Kimberley 1983 selected work criticism life story oral history
Untitled Span , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Words and Visions , Winter no. 16 1984; (p. 36)

— Review of Gularabulu : Stories from the West Kimberley 1983 selected work criticism life story oral history
Recording Oral History Beverley Driver , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , May no. 1 1984; (p. 90-91)

— Review of Gularabulu : Stories from the West Kimberley 1983 selected work criticism life story oral history
Diversity of Paperbacks Hope Hewitt , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 January 1993; (p. C8)

— Review of Harbour : Stories by Australian Writers 1993 anthology short story ; Gularabulu : Stories from the West Kimberley 1983 selected work criticism life story oral history ; I Took My Harp to a Party Alexandra Long , 1993 selected work short story
Untitled Bob Hodge , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , December vol. 28 no. 4 1983; (p. 61-64)

— Review of Gularabulu : Stories from the West Kimberley 1983 selected work criticism life story oral history
Beyond Orality and Literacy: Textuality, Modernity and Representation in Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley Michèle Grossman , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 81 2004; (p. 59-71; notes 208-210) Boundary Writing : An Exploration of Race, Culture, and Gender Binaries in Contemporary Australia 2006; (p. 149-169)
'In a number of collaborative works of Indigenous life-writing, the historical and theoretical entanglements between orality and literacy ... the spheres of "talk" and "text" ... underwrite the limits and possibilities of such works as part of the broader project of contemporary cross-cultural representation. Paddy Roe's and Stephen Muecke's collaboration in Gularabula has been extremely influential in this field in Australia. Their work has shaped cross-cultural approaches to the genre since its publication in1983. This article revisits Gularabula in order to examine the relationship between talk and text in collaborative Indigenous/non-Indigenous works, and considers some critical responses to these efforts.' (p.59)
Listening to Indigenous Voices : The Ethics of Reading in the Teaching of Australian Indigenous Oral Narrative Russell West-Pavlov , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transcultural Graffiti : Diasporic Writing and the Teaching of Literary Studies 2005; (p. 155-170)
Thoughts on Aboriginal Literature Jim Kable , 1985 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Aboriginal Child at School , February/March vol. 13 no. 1 1985; (p. 31-52)
Aboriginal Literature in Austria: A Discussion of Three Audiobooks Oliver Haag , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 1 2011; (p. 51-64)

'The author discusses the overseas marketing of translated Aboriginal literature which has received scant scholarly attention. The paper examines three examples of Aboriginal literature that have been translated into German and produced as audiobooks by two Austrian publishers...this paper focuses on the translation and promotion of these audiobooks by their Austrian publishers and argues that an understanding of the representation of Aboriginal people in these audiobooks is informed by different aspects of translation and advertisement as well as the format of the medium itself' (Source: Abstract).

The Itinerant Text : Walking between the Lines with Stephen Muecke and Mark Minchinton Michèle Grossman , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journeying and Journalling : Creative and Critical Meditations on Travel Writing 2010; (p. 78-90)
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  • Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,
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