y separately published work icon Fragments of a Lost Heritage single work   autobiography  
Note: Edited by Roger Keesing.
Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 Fragments of a Lost Heritage
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'Fragments of a Lost Heritage was launched at the Pacific History Association Conference in Brisbane in 1989. None present will forget Noel Fatnowna’s eloquent oration. He held his academic audience spellbound, playing them theatrically in the Australian version of classic Melanisian Bigman style, totally in control. Fragments is the most reliable and readable account of the several written by descendants of Queensland Kansas, and adds considerably to the already extensive literature on the Queensland labour trade...' (Source: Clive Moore, V. 18. Journal of Pacific Studies)

Notes

  • Cover Title: A Powerful and Moving Account of a Kanaka Family

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Ryde, Ryde - Gladesville - Hunters Hill area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1989 .
      Extent: xiv, 185p.p.
      Description: illus., ports, maps
      Note/s:
      • Includes index, bibliographical references.
      ISBN: 0207157383

Works about this Work

Cultural Heritage and Identity in the Literature of Australian South Sea Islanders and Other Media 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Etropic : Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics , vol. 12 no. 1 2013;

'Australian South Sea Islanders represent a small community whose ancestors mainly came from Melanesian Islands to work as indentured labour in the sugar cane plantations of Queensland from the 1860’s to the beginning of the 20th century. Many still live near the old sugar towns, but apart from an official recognition of their existence and distinctiveness by the Federal Government in 1994 and by the Queensland Government in 2000, South Sea Islanders’ culture, economic and political roles are still underrepresented or even ignored in Australia. In the 1970’s, writers belonging to that community, such as Faith Bandler, Mabel Edmund and Noel Fatnowna started to tell their own family history since the arrival of their first ancestors on the continent. These autobiographical accounts enabled them to reassert their identity as a culturally distinct group and to shed light on a part of Australia’s forgotten past. Other written testimonies followed at the beginning of the 21st century but the lack of young South Sea Islander writers induced us to look at their other means of expression to promote their culture and complete the missing parts of their personal and collective history. ' (Author's abstract)

Cultural Heritage and Identity in the Literature of Australian South Sea Islanders and Other Media 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Etropic : Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics , vol. 12 no. 1 2013;

'Australian South Sea Islanders represent a small community whose ancestors mainly came from Melanesian Islands to work as indentured labour in the sugar cane plantations of Queensland from the 1860’s to the beginning of the 20th century. Many still live near the old sugar towns, but apart from an official recognition of their existence and distinctiveness by the Federal Government in 1994 and by the Queensland Government in 2000, South Sea Islanders’ culture, economic and political roles are still underrepresented or even ignored in Australia. In the 1970’s, writers belonging to that community, such as Faith Bandler, Mabel Edmund and Noel Fatnowna started to tell their own family history since the arrival of their first ancestors on the continent. These autobiographical accounts enabled them to reassert their identity as a culturally distinct group and to shed light on a part of Australia’s forgotten past. Other written testimonies followed at the beginning of the 21st century but the lack of young South Sea Islander writers induced us to look at their other means of expression to promote their culture and complete the missing parts of their personal and collective history. ' (Author's abstract)

Last amended 13 Aug 2013 09:40:23
Subjects:
  • Mackay, Mackay - Sarina area, Marlborough - Mackay - Townsville area, Queensland,
  • c
    Solomon Islands,
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    South Pacific, Pacific Region,
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