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Issue Details: First known date: 1979... 1979 Long Live Sandawara : A Novel
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'On the periphery of the fast-moving city of Perth, Aboriginal teenagers eke out a living full of violence, sex, lawlessness and poverty.

'Every revolution needs a leader and there is no question in Alan's mind that he is that leader. For inspiration he goes to Noorak, the law holder of his people, and hears the heroic tales of Sandawara, the last of the warriors, who died defending his land and his people against the white man in the Kimberleys. So Alan names himself and becomes the new Sandwara and the rest of the unemployed teenage Aborigines of his mob take the names of Sandawara's followers. In his crash pad, a broken-down old house, the new Sandawara plots and schemes the revolution.

'The story of this mob of anti-heroes, of a farcical inefficient revolution, gives a vivid portrayal of the new and frightening world of rootless youth, who lack identity and purpose and shoot as easily as they love because neither act has meaning.' (Publication summary : 2020 edition)

Notes

  • Dedication: To Elaine Castaneda

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Quartet Books , 1979 .
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      Extent: 170p.
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      • Typescript and galley proofs held at NLA.
      ISBN: 0908128118
    • South Yarra, South Yarra - Glen Iris area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Hyland House , 1987 .
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      Extent: 170p.
      Written as: Mudrooroo
      Reprinted: 1992
      ISBN: 0947062017
    • Exile Bay, Drummoyne - Concord area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: ETT Imprint , 2020 .
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      Extent: 165p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 11th December 2020
      ISBN: 9781922473240
Alternative title: Lange leve Sandawara
Language: Swedish

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  • Also braille and sound recording.

Works about this Work

Aboriginal Affair(s): Reflections on the Life of Mudrooroo Eva Rask Knudsen , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: LINQ , December no. 39 2012; (p. 105-115)

'The article reviews the controversial 'Mudrooroo Affair' with reference to unpublished work by Mudrooroo in which he comments on the public debate about his rights to define himself as Aboriginal and, by extension, have his work credited as Aboriginal. Such work makes it pertinent to review Mudrooroo's creative output since 1965 as literary experiments with life writing and to reconsider Mudrooroo's many literary 'performances' from this perspective. They are not only explorations of Aboriginal identity politics over,- the last five decades, but may also be seen as a far more personal investment in exploring Aboriginal identity through a progressively shifting but interrelated series of subjectivities that reflect the writer's own experience and inform his claim to Aboriginality.' (Publication summary)

Colin Johnson : A Survey Susan Ballyn , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth Literary Cultures : New Voices, New Approaches : Conference Papers, Lecce, 3-7 April, 1990 1993; (p. 419-428)
Kings in Kimberley Watercourses : Sadism and Pastoralism Rod Giblett , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Span , October no. 36 1993; (p. 541-559)
y separately published work icon Mudrooroo : A Critical Study Adam Shoemaker , Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1993 Z213563 1993 single work criticism
History as Texts : Pigeon the 'Bushranger' Stephen Muecke , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Textual Spaces : Aboriginality and Cultural Studies 1992; (p. 60-75)
'One of the main problems for Aboriginal history, as I see it, is to authenticate the appropriate discourse for its transmission, and this issue has been hotly debated. At one point the 'authentic' accounts of Aboriginal history were firmly locked in academic standard English. But going back to 1981 we find an Aboriginal working party for the Bicentennial History Project challenging the assumptions of historians that history and the language in which history is presented are somehow independent of each other: 'When the cues, the repetitions, the language, the distinctively Aboriginal evocations of our experience are removed from the recitals of our people, the truth is lost to us. (Langton, 1981)) (60)
Recent Fiction : Futurism and Other Projections Peter Pierce , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 39 no. 2 1980; (p. 260-269)

— Review of A Woman of the Future David Ireland , 1979 single work novel ; Long Live Sandawara : A Novel Colin Johnson , 1979 single work novel ; Confederates Thomas Keneally , 1979 single work novel ; Hemlock R. A. Nicholls , 1979 single work novel ; The Twyborn Affair Patrick White , 1979 single work novel
Untitled Thomas Shapcott , 1980 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 25 no. 2 1980; (p. 121-122)

— Review of Long Live Sandawara : A Novel Colin Johnson , 1979 single work novel
Why Australia's Black Revolution Came Undone Judah Waten , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 September 1979; (p. 26)

— Review of Long Live Sandawara : A Novel Colin Johnson , 1979 single work novel ; Unicorn Among the Wattles Harry Marks , 1979 single work novel
Colin Johnson : A Survey Susan Ballyn , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth Literary Cultures : New Voices, New Approaches : Conference Papers, Lecce, 3-7 April, 1990 1993; (p. 419-428)
History as Texts : Pigeon the 'Bushranger' Stephen Muecke , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Textual Spaces : Aboriginality and Cultural Studies 1992; (p. 60-75)
'One of the main problems for Aboriginal history, as I see it, is to authenticate the appropriate discourse for its transmission, and this issue has been hotly debated. At one point the 'authentic' accounts of Aboriginal history were firmly locked in academic standard English. But going back to 1981 we find an Aboriginal working party for the Bicentennial History Project challenging the assumptions of historians that history and the language in which history is presented are somehow independent of each other: 'When the cues, the repetitions, the language, the distinctively Aboriginal evocations of our experience are removed from the recitals of our people, the truth is lost to us. (Langton, 1981)) (60)
Kings in Kimberley Watercourses : Sadism and Pastoralism Rod Giblett , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Span , October no. 36 1993; (p. 541-559)
Fact and Historical Fiction Adam Shoemaker , 1982 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , December vol. 27 no. 4 1982; (p. 73-79)
Perth or the Bush? Sense of Place in the Novels of Colin Johnson Michael Cotter , 1986 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Sense of Place in the New Literatures in English 1986; (p. 97-111)
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