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This documentary shows the well-known Aboriginal poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) living on Stradbroke Island, Queensland, the place that was once the home of her native tribe. She welcomes visitors, particularly Aboriginal children, hoping to imbue them with pride in their own culture.
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Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal), Judith Wright and Decolonised Transcultural Ecopoetics in Frank Heimans’ ‘Shadow Sister’
2015
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— Appears in: Sydney Studies in English , no. 41 2015; 'Aboriginal poet and activist Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal) and Anglo-Australian poet Judith Wright shared an intense and multi-layered friendship over many decades. In Frank Heimans’ classic 1977 documentary ‘Shadow Sister: A Film Biography of Australian Aboriginal Poet Kath Walker’, Wright visits Walker at her home at Moongalba on Minjerriba (North Stradbroke Island), and in a compelling sequence of scenes they share a lively discourse that reveals a curious and complex assemblage of cultural, political and aesthetic formations. Prompted by Walker’s gift to Wright of a ‘Stradbroke Island Orchid’, this essay proposes a decolonised transcultural ecopoetics in which Walker’s Aboriginal land-rights activism and Wright’s counter-cultural environmentalism are synthesised in a sororal, cross-cultural feminist framework that disrupts western patrilineal, colonial epistemes. Walker and Wright’s decolonised transcultural ecopoetics is shown to be an exemplar of late-modernism in Australia, and a unique antipodean contribution to a transformational planetary environmentalism.' (Publication abstract) -
'Back to Nature' : Oodgeroo's Return to Stradbroke
2012
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— Appears in: Fryer Folios , July vol. 7 no. 1 2012; (p. 3-5) -
Poetry as Cinema : A Discursive Screening from 1913-2006
2011
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— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 71 no. 3 2011; (p. 135-148) 'Australian cinema began with a confident leap into the future. Charles Tait's The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in Melbourne in 1906, is credited as the world's first narrative feature. Post-Federation years continued to see poetry influence the national imagination, and occasionally inspire cinema on its journey.' (Author's abstract)
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Poet Finds Apathy in her Own Land
1978
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 April 1978; (p. 16) -
Helping to Regain Pride and A Sense of Idenity
1977
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— Appears in: The West Australian , 2 August 1977; (p. 32)
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Shadow Sister
1977
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— Appears in: Womanspeak , September-October vol. 3 no. 3 1977; (p. 16-17)
— Review of Shadow Sister : A Film Biography of Kath Walker, M.B.E. 1978 single work film/TV -
Kath's Fire Still Has Heat
1977
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biography
— Appears in: The Daily Telegraph , 19 July 1977; (p. 13) -
Kath Walker at Her Own Movie
1977
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 November 1977; (p. 24) -
Helping to Regain Pride and A Sense of Idenity
1977
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— Appears in: The West Australian , 2 August 1977; (p. 32) -
Poet Finds Apathy in her Own Land
1978
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 April 1978; (p. 16) -
Poetry as Cinema : A Discursive Screening from 1913-2006
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 71 no. 3 2011; (p. 135-148) 'Australian cinema began with a confident leap into the future. Charles Tait's The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in Melbourne in 1906, is credited as the world's first narrative feature. Post-Federation years continued to see poetry influence the national imagination, and occasionally inspire cinema on its journey.' (Author's abstract)
Last amended 18 Feb 2022 12:49:12
Subjects:
- Stradbroke Island, Moreton Bay, Brisbane - South East, Brisbane, Queensland,
Settings:
- Stradbroke Island, Moreton Bay, Brisbane - South East, Brisbane, Queensland,
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