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Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 My Bundjalung People
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'When Ruby Langford Ginibi was eight years old, her father collected his daughters from the Box Ridge mission and drove them to safety out of reach of the white authorities and the policy of removing Aboriginal children from their families. Today an established author and Aboriginal activist, Ruby travels back to her home in Bundjalung country to trace and record the history of her community, her roots. The reader is taken aboard on the journey home, down the backroads of northern New South Wales into the homes and conversations of cousins, aunties, and tribal elders. The experience is direct and the feelings are shared. Ruby Langford Ginibi writes with the humour, exuberance and unbending truth for which her first book, Don't Take Your Love to Town, won such renown.' (Source: UQP website: www.uqp.uq.edu.au)

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  • Dedication: I wish to dedicate this book to my aunt Mrs Eileen Morgan, my gummi, and to the tribal elders of Box Ridge mission, my gummies Emily and the late Mary Wilson.

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Reluctant Wandering : New Mobilities in Contemporary Australian Travel Writing Kate Cantrell , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 2020; (p. 353-364)

'Travel has always been an important trope of settler literature, central not only to colonial displacement and dispossession but to postcolonial reimaginings of identity, gender, and place. However, it was not until the early twentieth century, after the rise of literary nationalism, that a nativist form of travel writing emerged in Australia. By mid-century, there was a more established tradition due to the introduction of motor touring and a post-war boom in mass migration and tourism. In the 1970s and 1980s, Australian travel writing was chiefly preoccupied with road stories, and with narratives of risk and adventure, while in the 1990s, Indigenous writers imagined new possibilities for healing through travel writing that sought to recover ancestral connections to language and land. Today, Australian travel writing is a burgeoning subject of academic enquiry, and in Australia, as elsewhere, there is a broadening rather than narrowing perspective of what constitutes ‘travel’ writing. Recently, an upsurgence of interest in mobility studies has raised new questions, not only about the experience of moving (and being moved), but about how different theories of im/mobility are central to the way travel is practised and prohibited, and sometimes undertaken reluctantly.'

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Contemporary Life Writing : Inscribing Double Voice in Intergenerational Collaborative Life-writing Projects Martina Horáková , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature 2013; (p. 53-69)

Martina Horakova examines an narratological approach used in double-voiced narratives in which present two equally authoritative narrative voices. The author analyses the genre of Australian Indigenous life writing and the nature of collaboration present between participants both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. To exemplify aspects of the structure of 'double-voice', and its narrative complexity the author examines the life writing of Rita and Jackie Huggins biographical account Auntie Rita.

Australian Aboriginal Life Writers and their Editors: Cross-Cultural Collaboration, Authorial Intention, and the Impact of Editorial Choices Jennifer Jones , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature 2013; (p. 35-52)

When Mary Ann Hughes complained in 1998 that critics were preoccupied with the process of editorial collaboration that shaped Australian Aboriginal texts, she argued that this focus led to the neglect of the literary merit of the work. While the collaboration of mainstream writers with editors primarily went unremarked, “in the case of an Aboriginal writer, the role of the editor in constructing the work is the issue which most readily springs to the fore.” Hughes remarked upon the then decade-long critical determination to materialize the traditionally invisible craft of editing. This critical preoccupation ran parallel with the second wave of Aboriginal life writing (Brewster, 44), which witnessed the transformation of Aboriginal publishing from marginal to mainstream, reaching beyond the local to global audiences (Haag, 12). The exponential increase in the publication of Aboriginal life writing was accompanied by the politicization of publication processes, including coproduction, that have conventionally been kept from public view. (Introduction)

‘Bumping Some Bloody Heads Together’ : A Qualitative Study of German-Speaking Readers of Ruby Langford Ginibi’s Texts Oliver Haag , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia , vol. 3 no. 1 2012; (p. 114-125)
'The writing of Ruby Langford Ginibi has been read, not only within Australia, but also overseas. Often, Indigenous literature is regarded as a primarily national literature, addressed to first and foremost white Australian readers. This article places Ginibi's writing in an overseas context and examines the reactions that Germanspeaking readers have shown to her texts. Drawing on qualitative interviews with readers in Germany and Austria, this study explores the individual techniques of German-speaking readers to connect to the cultural foreign contexts of Ginibi's texts and make sense of them. It also reflects on the author's personal connections to Ginibi's texts and how her writing relates to his own racial contexts in Central Europe.' (Author's abstract)
Ruby Langford Ginibi´s Influence on a Spanish Student of Australian Studies Caty Ribas , 2012 single work prose
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia , vol. 3 no. 1 2012; (p. 60-66)
'Dr Ruby Langford Ginibi influenced me, personally and academically speaking, with her text Haunted by the Past, her direct style of writing and her personal approach to life and hardship. This text pays tribute to her by explaining how reading Haunted by the Past turned out to be a central text in my life.' (Author's abstract, 60)
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— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , March vol. 7 no. 1 1995; (p. 9-10)

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— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 20 no. 1996; (p. 226-228)

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— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , August vol. 74 no. 1050 1994; (p. 34)

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Outrage, Wrong Turns and Fun Ed Southorn , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 15 October 1994; (p. wkd 6)

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y separately published work icon Recovery and Restoration : Changing Identities of Aboriginal Women in Australia Gail Hennessy , 1999 Z1019315 1999 single work thesis The thesis critically examines four autobiographical writers. These four writers, Margaret Tucker, Glenyse Ward, Sally Morgan and Ruby Langford Ginibi illustrate different ways of constructing an Aboriginal identity in their published texts.
My Mob, My Self Ruby Langford Ginibi , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Strength of Us as Women : Black Women Speak 2000; (p. 17-20)

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Reciprocal Bonds : Re-Thinking Orality and Literacy in Critical Perspectives on Indigenous Australian Life-Writing Michèle Grossman , 2005 single work essay
— Appears in: Script and Print , vol. 29 no. 1-4 2005; (p. 115-129)
International Feminist Book Fair Carole Ferrier , 1994 single work column
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , October/November no. 13 1994; (p. 53)
Black Chicks Talking : Indigenous Women's Writing in JSNWL's Collection Jane Pollard , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Jessie Street National Women's Library Newsletter , May vol. 22 no. 2 2011; (p. 6-7)
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