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Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Bantam
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Notes

  • Serialised on ABC Book Reading at the same time 'Bantam, a Real Book' was broadcast on ABC Airplay.

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Place and People : Stories by and of Unemployed Youth in a Small Island Community Terry Whitebeach , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Oral History Association of Australia Journal , no. 32 2010; (p. 48-51)

'Native American Writer Leslie Marmon Silko notes that within traditional Pueblo society, story telling (oral history) is part of a communal process of remembering, in which everyone is expected to listen and to speak up and contribute a detail or a fact that has been omitted, or to recount a conflicting version. People welcome even conflicting versions of events, recognising that loyalties, grudges and kinship influence narrative choices, and truth lies somewhere within the web of differing versions, disputes over minor points and outright contradictions arising from old feuds and rivalries.

This paper explores this way of oral history, and memory making. It focuses on accounts by and about unemployed young people in a rural community in Southern Tasmania. It discusses the way these accounts were collected, transcribed and transmuted, in a collaborative venture, into literature (to date, a novel and a radio play) in order to stand witness to a community's memory and experience and also to ensure that particular individuals not be shamed - a dialogue which includes the conflicting accounts, attitudes, opinions and versions whose effective coexistence is essential to maintaining co-operative interdependence in small island communities.' Source: The author.

Untitled Peta Harrison , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 17 no. 1 2003; (p. 39)

— Review of Bantam Terry Whitebeach , Michael Brown , 2002 single work novel
Untitled Mario La Marca , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 11 no. 1 2003; (p. 51)

— Review of Bantam Terry Whitebeach , Michael Brown , 2002 single work novel
Untitled Kevin Steinberger , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 46 no. 4 2002; (p. 37)

— Review of Bantam Terry Whitebeach , Michael Brown , 2002 single work novel
Untitled Jane Connolly , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 17 no. 5 2002; (p. 42)

— Review of Bantam Terry Whitebeach , Michael Brown , 2002 single work novel
Untitled Kevin Steinberger , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 46 no. 4 2002; (p. 37)

— Review of Bantam Terry Whitebeach , Michael Brown , 2002 single work novel
Untitled Mario La Marca , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 11 no. 1 2003; (p. 51)

— Review of Bantam Terry Whitebeach , Michael Brown , 2002 single work novel
Untitled Peta Harrison , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 17 no. 1 2003; (p. 39)

— Review of Bantam Terry Whitebeach , Michael Brown , 2002 single work novel
Untitled Jane Connolly , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 17 no. 5 2002; (p. 42)

— Review of Bantam Terry Whitebeach , Michael Brown , 2002 single work novel
Place and People : Stories by and of Unemployed Youth in a Small Island Community Terry Whitebeach , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Oral History Association of Australia Journal , no. 32 2010; (p. 48-51)

'Native American Writer Leslie Marmon Silko notes that within traditional Pueblo society, story telling (oral history) is part of a communal process of remembering, in which everyone is expected to listen and to speak up and contribute a detail or a fact that has been omitted, or to recount a conflicting version. People welcome even conflicting versions of events, recognising that loyalties, grudges and kinship influence narrative choices, and truth lies somewhere within the web of differing versions, disputes over minor points and outright contradictions arising from old feuds and rivalries.

This paper explores this way of oral history, and memory making. It focuses on accounts by and about unemployed young people in a rural community in Southern Tasmania. It discusses the way these accounts were collected, transcribed and transmuted, in a collaborative venture, into literature (to date, a novel and a radio play) in order to stand witness to a community's memory and experience and also to ensure that particular individuals not be shamed - a dialogue which includes the conflicting accounts, attitudes, opinions and versions whose effective coexistence is essential to maintaining co-operative interdependence in small island communities.' Source: The author.

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