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Issue Details: First known date: 1971... 1971 Boss Drover : Stories Related to the Author by Matt Savage
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  • Dedication: For Elaine, Joanna, Patricia and Tanya

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    • Adelaide, South Australia,: Rigby , 1971 .
      Extent: 169p, 16p of platesp.
      Description: illus.
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      • Author's Introduction: 'Boss Drover' is the story of a man who is still alive as this is written. Matt Savage, peerless drover and cattleman, was a great name not so long ago around the campfires of central Australia and the desolate Kimberley region to the north-west. ... I sat down with him in Alice Springs for several weeks, asking questions and taking replies on a tape recorder. ... What I had in the end was not a chronological story of one man's life but a series of anecdotes; tragic, hilarious, and sometimes horrifying.... I have changed some names, and altered events where the original might have upset a few very old men or their relatives. ...what remains is among the most honest accounts ever given of a very tough and brutal era of our history. ..
      ISBN: 0851792898
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White Closets, Jangling Nerves and the Biopolitics of the Public Secret Fiona Probyn , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , June vol. 26 no. 2 2011; (p. 57-75) 'This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the 'raw nerves' that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of 'indifference' that Stanner identifies as being characteristic of 'European life' in Australia. Here I situate indifference as numbing the 'jangling' of 'raw nerves' and as cultivated, disseminated and feeding specific forms of public secrecy. How did the white men who enforces segregation by day and pursued Aboriginal women by night manage their 'jangling nerves, if indeed they did jangle? How did they manage to be seen and known and have their secrets kept for them, as much as by them. How did this contradiction of segregation and sexual intimacy, if indeed it is a contradiction, work, My hope is that if we can understand how the white men (and those around them), regulated these jangling nerves, then we might be able to understand the relationship between indifference, public secrecy and the biopolitical forms that Australian whiteness took in the twentieth century, and specifically in the period of assimilation, extending from the 1930s to, roughly, the end of the 1960s.' (Author's introduction p. 57)
White Closets, Jangling Nerves and the Biopolitics of the Public Secret Fiona Probyn , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , June vol. 26 no. 2 2011; (p. 57-75) 'This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the 'raw nerves' that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of 'indifference' that Stanner identifies as being characteristic of 'European life' in Australia. Here I situate indifference as numbing the 'jangling' of 'raw nerves' and as cultivated, disseminated and feeding specific forms of public secrecy. How did the white men who enforces segregation by day and pursued Aboriginal women by night manage their 'jangling nerves, if indeed they did jangle? How did they manage to be seen and known and have their secrets kept for them, as much as by them. How did this contradiction of segregation and sexual intimacy, if indeed it is a contradiction, work, My hope is that if we can understand how the white men (and those around them), regulated these jangling nerves, then we might be able to understand the relationship between indifference, public secrecy and the biopolitical forms that Australian whiteness took in the twentieth century, and specifically in the period of assimilation, extending from the 1930s to, roughly, the end of the 1960s.' (Author's introduction p. 57)
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Subjects:
  • Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,
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