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Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Maybe Tomorrow
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'From the Aboriginal fringe camps of his birth to the catwalk, basketball court, DJ console and more... With writer and photographer Meme McDonald, Pryor leads you along the paths he has travelled, pausing to meet his family and friends, while sharing the story of his life, his pain and his hopes, with humour and compassion.' Source: Publisher's blurb

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  • Author's note: This is my way of fighting. The old people used to fight in a different way. They fought with spears. Then my parents fought to stay alive on the reserves. The trick is to find your own style of fighting. My brother just bent under the numbers. He took everyone on at once and lost. I'm fighting in a different way. And I'm surviving.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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Photographs by Meme McDonald.
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1998 .
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      Extent: 203p.
      Description: illus. (b & w) maps; ports.
      Written as: Boori (Monty) Pryor
      Reprinted: 1999 6th reprint
      ISBN: 0140273972
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2010 .
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      Extent: 209p.
      Edition info: Anniversary Edition
      Description: illus., map
      ISBN: 9781742372440
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Works about this Work

Australian Children’s Literature and Postcolonialism : A Review Essay Xu Daozhi , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Ilha Do Desterro : A Journal of English Language , vol. 69 no. 2 2016; 'The theme of land and country is resonant in Australian children’s literature with Aboriginal subject matter. The textual and visual narratives present counter-discourse strategies to challenge the colonial ideology and dominant valuation of Australian landscape. This paper begins by examining the colonial history of seeing Australia as an “empty space”, naming, and appropriating the land by erasing Aboriginal presence from the land. Then it explores the conceptual re-investment of Aboriginal connections to country in the representation of Australian landscape, as reflected and re-imagined in fiction and non-fiction for child readers. Thereby, as the paper suggests, a shared and reconciliatory space can at least discursively be negotiated and envisioned. ' (Publication abstract)
From Individual Representations to Community Consciousness: Australian Aboriginal Autobiographies Ishmeet Kaur , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: IJAS , no. 5 2012; (p. 98-116) Ishmeet Kaur attempts 'to understand the process of 'othering' of the Aboriginal people, the moments of consciousness and issues of identity with respect to Aboriginal autobiographies particularly through a reading of Sally Morgan's My Place (1988) and Boori Monty Pryor's May Be Tomorrow (1998). (99)
Pryor Keeps on Telling His Stories Margaret Smith , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 27 January no. 468 2010; (p. 45) Originally published in 1998, an anniversary edition of Maybe Tomorrow has just been released by publisher Allen and Unwin.
Writing the Childhood Self : Australian Aboriginal Autobiographies, Memoirs, and Testimonies Heather Scutter , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lion and the Unicorn , April vol. 25 no. 2 2001; (p. 226-241) The author discusses how Australian Aboriginal writers are dealing with cultural loss by calling on childhood memories to restore a sense of reality, significance and wholeness.
[Review] Maybe Tomorrow Jenette Graham , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 14 no. 2 2000; (p. 65)
— Review of Maybe Tomorrow Boori Pryor , Meme McDonald , 1998 single work autobiography
[Review] Maybe Tomorrow John D. Adams , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 42 no. 2 1998; (p. 24)
— Review of Maybe Tomorrow Boori Pryor , Meme McDonald , 1998 single work autobiography
[Review] Maybe Tomorrow Kevin Steinberger , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 13 no. 1 1998; (p. 41)
— Review of Maybe Tomorrow Boori Pryor , Meme McDonald , 1998 single work autobiography
[Review] Maybe Tomorrow Jenette Graham , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 14 no. 2 2000; (p. 65)
— Review of Maybe Tomorrow Boori Pryor , Meme McDonald , 1998 single work autobiography
To Write Wrongs Melissa Lucashenko , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , February vol. 4 no. 1 1999; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Across Country : Stories from Aboriginal Australia 1998 anthology short story ; Maybe Tomorrow Boori Pryor , Meme McDonald , 1998 single work autobiography ; Unwritten Histories Craig Cormick , 1998 selected work short story prose ; Sister Girl : The Writings of Aboriginal Activist and Historian Jackie Huggins Jackie Huggins , 1998 selected work prose interview essay biography ; Shadow Child : A Memoir of the Stolen Generation Rosalie Fraser , 1998 single work autobiography
A Fire in the Soul, Yet Forgiveness in the Heart Christopher Bantick , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times Sunday Times , 22 March 1998; (p. 22)
— Review of Maybe Tomorrow Boori Pryor , Meme McDonald , 1998 single work autobiography
The Children's Book Council of Australia Annual Awards 1999 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 43 no. 3 1999; (p. 3-12)
y separately published work icon Boori and Meme : The Process of Collaborative Writing. Bendigo : Video Education Australasia , 1999 Z1287602 1999 single work criticism 'Authors Boori Pryor and Meme McDonald discuss how they collaborated in writing Maybe Tomorrow and My Girragundji. Shows how the combination of Aboriginal and Western cultures is explored to create a spirit of cooperation, understanding and reconciliation.' Source: Libraries Australia.
Writing the Childhood Self : Australian Aboriginal Autobiographies, Memoirs, and Testimonies Heather Scutter , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lion and the Unicorn , April vol. 25 no. 2 2001; (p. 226-241) The author discusses how Australian Aboriginal writers are dealing with cultural loss by calling on childhood memories to restore a sense of reality, significance and wholeness.
Pryor Keeps on Telling His Stories Margaret Smith , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 27 January no. 468 2010; (p. 45) Originally published in 1998, an anniversary edition of Maybe Tomorrow has just been released by publisher Allen and Unwin.
Maybe Tomorrow, Picture That Kristina Olsson , 1998 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 March 1998; (p. 9)
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