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Issue Details: First known date: 1984... 1984 How Aboriginal Life Histories Can Be Written : A Response to the Review `Language and Dignity'
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'In a review titled 'Language and Dignity' Nancy Keesing (1983:16-18) claimed that the two books of Aboriginal Australian narratives, Banggaiyerri: the story of Jack Sullivan as told to Bruce Shaw (Shaw 1983a) and Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley (Roe and Muecke [ed.] 1983) were, in brief, clumsy, pretentious and stripped the dignity from the original storytellers. She is not quite as direct as this in her phrasing but her meaning is clear: '... Jack Sullivan is marginally less clumsy ... if I could read his story with any pleasure as to language, it would equal unpretentious works like ... I, as a general reader, feel strongly that whereas Nisa loses no dignity, nor immediacy in Marjorie Shostak's method ... Paddy Roe and Jack Sullivan have been deprived of their wide audience rights by the utmost but perhaps debatable goodwill of up-to-the-minute scholarship' (Keesing 1983:18).' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Aboriginal Studies no. 1 1984 Z611794 1984 periodical issue

    This is my first issue as General Editor, taking the place of Eric Willmot who, as most readers of the journal will know, left the Institute in August and moved to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs.

    In this issue we introduce a new feature called 'Resources', the aim of which is to bring to your attention some of the materials held in the Institute's collections. Each item will also, we hope, be of interest in its own right. The first is an unpublished manuscript by Robert Etheridge. We would like to have your reactions to this feature—in particular, we need suggestions as to material which might be included in future issues. If you know of interesting manuscript, photographic or sound material which we hold and which could be useful if published, please let us know.' (Editorial introduction)

         1984     pg. 47-52
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