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Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 Women of the Sun
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Though these four women 'lived in different eras they shared the same resilience and spirit - these Women of the Sun ...This quartet of stories speaks with the simplicity and power of the Aboriginal voice, illuminating from their perspective the experience of two centuries of white domination'. (Source: Back Cover, Penguin Books 1987 edition)

Exhibitions

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Notes

  • Dedication: to all those who have struggled against great odds to keep alive the soul and culture of the people.
  • Novelisation of the four part television series; book comprises a brief prologue, 'Towradgi' (short story), followed by a 'quartet' of thematically related stories: 'Alinta, the Flame'; 'Maydina, the Shadow'; 'Nerida, the Waterlily'; 'Lo-Arna, the Beautiful'.
  • Study guide available.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,:Penguin , 1985 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Towradgi, Hyllus Maris , Sonia Borg , single work short story (p. 1-5)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1985 .
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      Extent: vi, 177 p.p.
      Reprinted: 1986 , 1987 , 1989
      Note/s:
      • 'The novel of the award-winning TV series'. (appears on cover, 1987 edition)
      • Includes Afterword by Hyllus Maris and Sonia Borg.
      ISBN: 0140070869 (pbk)
Alternative title: Gynaikes tou hēliou
Language: Greek
    • Thessaloniki, Macedonia,
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      Greece,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      University Studio Press ,
      2008 .
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      Extent: 252p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 9789601216768 (pbk), 9601216766

Other Formats

  • Also braille, sound recording.

Works about this Work

White Blindfolds and Black Armbands: The Uses of Whiteness Theory for Reading Australian Cultural Production Carole Ferrier , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Unmasking Whiteness : Race Relations and Reconciliation 1999; (p. 68-78) Queensland Review , May vol. 6 no. 1 1999; (p. 42-49)
'Analyses or descriptions of the history of race relations (and cultural production) in what has been called Australia for about a hundred years, have frequently been informed by two orientations that might be simply categorised as the white blindfold and the black armband positions. In many cases, these two mindsets can be observed in other Western cultures although the interaction between them, and the society around them, gets played out differently in particular places at particular times.' (Extract)
White Blindfolds and Black Armbands: The Uses of Whiteness Theory for Reading Australian Cultural Production Carole Ferrier , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Unmasking Whiteness : Race Relations and Reconciliation 1999; (p. 68-78) Queensland Review , May vol. 6 no. 1 1999; (p. 42-49)
'Analyses or descriptions of the history of race relations (and cultural production) in what has been called Australia for about a hundred years, have frequently been informed by two orientations that might be simply categorised as the white blindfold and the black armband positions. In many cases, these two mindsets can be observed in other Western cultures although the interaction between them, and the society around them, gets played out differently in particular places at particular times.' (Extract)
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