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Adaptations
- y Kath : A Play for Primary Schools Millswood : Acting Company of South Australia , 1984 Z845876 1984 single work drama children's
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Stradbroke Dreamtime
2012
single work
drama
children's
'He was a beauty, that ten-foot carpet snake we had as a pet. My father belonged to the Nunukul tribe of Stradbroke Island, and the carpet snake was his totem. This is a tale of a place not far from home that takes audiences to the oldest living culture on earth.
This performance is an adaptation of celebrated poet, author and artist Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal's book, Stradbroke Dreamtime. In this newly created work from QPAC and Queensland Theatre Company, Oodgeroo's stories come to life on stage helping young audiences to share in her tales of growing up on Stradbroke Island.
Join in a dance telling a Dreamtime story and listen to songs that tell of the water, the land and the people of the island.' Source: www.outoftheboxfestival.com.au/ (Sighted 18/05/2012).
Notes
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Stradbroke Dreamtime was adapted for the drama 'Kath : A Play for Primary Schools'.
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Author's note: These stories were written while I was staying at Tambourine Mountain, in Queensland, Australia, with the well-known Australian poet Judith Wright. It is a lovely place, the home of thousands of birds and animals, and Judith Wright helps to guard the mountain and its creatures from greedy speculators who threaten to come there with mechanical shovels to dig it up and destroy it... (pp.9-10)
Affiliation Notes
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Japanese translation.
Contents
- Stradbroke, single work life story children's (p. 13-14)
- Kill to Eat, single work life story children's (p. 15-19)
- Shark, single work short story children's (p. 20-23)
- The Tank, single work life story children's (p. 24-29)
- Where's Mother?, single work life story children's (p. 30-35)
- Going Crabbing, single work life story (p. 36-40)
- The Left-hander, single work life story (p. 41-44)
- Carpet Snake, single work life story (p. 45-49)
- Family Council, single work life story children's (p. 50-53)
- Repeat Exercise, single work life story children's (p. 54-59)
- Mumma's Pet, single work life story children's (p. 59-63)
- Not Our Day, single work life story children's (p. 64-70)
- Dugong Coming!, single work life story (p. 71-74)
- The Beginning of Life, single work prose (p. 77-78)
- Biami and Bunyip, single work prose dreaming story children's (p. 79-81)
- Mirrabooka, single work prose children's dreaming story (p. 82-84)
- Curlew, single work prose children's dreaming story (p. 85-87)
- Burr-Nong, single work prose children's dreaming story (p. 88-91)
- The Midden, single work prose children's Indigenous story (p. 92-94)
- Wonga and Nudu, single work prose children's Indigenous story (p. 95-99)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also braille.
Works about this Work
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Healing, Catharsis and Reconciliation : Water as Metaphor in Ghost River
2016
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Le Simplegadi , no. 16 2016; (p. 86-94)This article explores the possibility of intercultural catharsis through literature, metaphorical connections and representations of place in Tony Birch’s Ghost River (2015). Water, rain and essentially the river, symbolise the building of a nation and the repair of Indigenous and non-Indigenous race relations. Aristotle’s theory of catharsis is deconstructed and built upon using Indigenous philosophies and intercultural dialogue to explore ideas about relationship building as a spiritual journey connected to the textual directions of the landscape.
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Constructing a Postcolonial Zone : The Example of Australia
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Stories about Stories : Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth 2013;'In Australia, where the oppression of native peoples and cultures was, if anything, even more severe than in North America, it has been harder to create contact zones, and, as discussed in chapter 5, attempts by white writers such as Patricia Wrightson to blend their traditions with those of indigenous Australians have been met with suspicion or hostility. Non-Aboriginal writers from Australia have generated such a collection of ignorant, patronizing, and demeaning texts about Aborigines that some of the latter want to call a halt to any further attempts. As the novelist Melissa Lucashenko says, "Who asked you to write about Aboriginal people? If it wasn't Aboriginal people themselves, I suggest you go away and look at your own lives instead of ours. We are tired of being the freak show of Australian popular culture" (quoted in Heiss 10). Whereas American writers often treated native cultures as noble, if doomed, and Indian characters as heroic adversaries or guides to the white hero (as in James Fenimore Cooper Leatherstocking series), early depictions of Aboriginal people at best treat them as part of the landscape and at worst—and there is a pretty clear worst in Austyn Granville lost-world romance The Fallen Race (1892)—as subhuman.' (Introduction)
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'Back to Nature' : Oodgeroo's Return to Stradbroke
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: Fryer Folios , July vol. 7 no. 1 2012; (p. 3-5) -
Books, Places and the Imagination
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 55 no. 4 2011; (p. 16-17) -
The Contemporary State of Academic Appraisal of Australian Literature in Japanese Universities
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 25 no. 1 2011; (p. 7-13) Yasue Arimitsu investigates 'the state of literature in Japan, and how Australian literature was introduced to Japan, how it is now being taught at universities, and the state of academic appraisal of Australian literature in Japanese universities' and 'what learning about Australian literature means to Japanese people'. (p. 7)
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[Review] Stradbroke Dreamtime
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 38 no. 2 1994; (p. 31)
— Review of Stradbroke Dreamtime 1972 selected work life story prose short story -
[Review] Stradbroke Dreamtime
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 9 no. 1 1994; (p. 36)
— Review of Stradbroke Dreamtime 1972 selected work life story prose short story -
[Review] Stradbroke Dreamtime
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 1 no. 4 1993; (p. 47-48)
— Review of Stradbroke Dreamtime 1972 selected work life story prose short story -
[Review] Stradbroke Dreamtime
1972
single work
review
— Appears in: Review , 24-30 June 1972; (p. 1025)
— Review of Stradbroke Dreamtime 1972 selected work life story prose short story -
Seeing Black
1981
single work
criticism
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 31 1981; (p. 34-36)
— Review of Stradbroke Dreamtime 1972 selected work life story prose short story -
Oodgeroo and Her Editor : The Production of Stradbroke Dreamtime
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 76 2003; (p. 47-[56], notes 232-233) Oodgeroo's Stradbroke Dreamtime was the first autobiographical narrative by an Aboriginal woman to gain a mainstream publisher, but, as Jones points out, the text was almost completely ignored by the literary establishment. It achieved good sales when marketed as a children's book. However, this sales success was founded upon Oodgeroo's acceptance of pragmatic compromise in the editorial preparation of the text. The paper argues that the published version is manifestly different form the manuscript in its ideological underpinning and political intentions, and that Oodgeroo's original representation of Aboriginality was occluded by an act of 'editorial double mimesis' during the production process. -
Why Weren't We Listening? : Oodgeroo and Judith Wright
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 171 2003; (p. 44-49) -
Deemed Unsuitable for Children : The Editing of Oodgeroo's Stradbroke Dreamtime
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , May vol. 14 no. 1 2004; (p. 5-14) Jones examines in detail the editing of Stradbroke Dreamtime, the changes made from the original text and how this could be interpreted. -
Know the Illustrator : Bronwyn Bancroft
1996
single work
column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 11 no. 2 1996; (p. 4-7) -
The Dreamtime Narrative : Australian Aboriginal Women Writers, Oral Tradition and Personal Experience
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Disability Studies and Indigenous Studies 2003; (p. 101-107)
- Stradbroke Island, Moreton Bay, Brisbane - South East, Brisbane, Queensland,