My Bundjalung People
Author: Ruby Langford Ginibi
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780702226373
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →History of authors family and community; history and politics.
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Don't Take Your Love to Town
Author: Ruby Langford Ginibi
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 2023-05-30
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0702267929
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ruby Langford Ginibi' s remarkable talent for storytelling grabbed the attention of both black and white Australians when she released Don' t Take Your Love to Town, which has gone on to become a bestseller and is now a seminal work of Indigenous memoir. Don' t Take Your Love to Town is a story of courage in the face of poverty and tragedy. Ruby recounts losing her mother when she was six, growing up in a mission in northern New South Wales and leaving home when she was fifteen. She lived in tin huts and tents in the bush and picked up work on the land while raising nine children virtually single-handedly. Later she struggled to make ends meet in the Koori areas of Sydney. Don' t Take Your Love to Town is a brilliant memoir that will open your eyes and heart to an extraordinary woman' s story.
Bridging the Divide between faith, theology and Life
Author: Anthony Maher
Publisher: ATF Press
Published: 2015-11-01
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1925232670
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This is a must read for practical theologians everywhere there is an engaging, even unique, freshness in the manner in which the [authors] choose their topics and develop their insights". Rev. Dr. Gerald A. Arbuckle, S.M., Consultant Anthropologist and Co-director, Refounding and Pastoral Development Unit, Sydney, Australia. "This volume breaks new ground in providing a deeply contextual work of practical theology from Oceania The volume presents a dialogical practical theology that is open to wisdom from all sources and seeks mystical-political transformation a much-needed contribution to the international conversation in practical theology and to the global church". Associate Professor Claire Wolfteich, Co-Director, Center for Practical Theology, Boston University, U.S.A; President of the International Academy of Practical Theology.
All My Mob
Author: Ruby Langford Ginibi
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780702235962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A compelling collection of reminiscences on family life, Indigenous social issues, and being Aboriginal in today's Australia.
Travel Writing from Black Australia
Author: Robert Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-11-19
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1317914759
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over the past thirty years the Australian travel experience has been ‘Aboriginalized’. Aboriginality has been appropriated to furnish the Australian nation with a unique and identifiable tourist brand. This is deeply ironic given the realities of life for many Aboriginal people in Australian society. On the one hand, Aboriginality in the form of artworks, literature, performances, landscapes, sport, and famous individuals is celebrated for the way it blends exoticism, mysticism, multiculturalism, nationalism, and reconciliation. On the other hand, in the media, cinema, and travel writing, Aboriginality in the form of the lived experiences of Aboriginal people has been exploited in the service of moral panic, patronized in the name of white benevolence, or simply ignored. For many travel writers, this irony - the clash between different regimes of valuing Aboriginality - is one of the great challenges to travelling in Australia. Travel Writing from Black Australia examines the ambivalence of contemporary travelers’ engagements with Aboriginality. Concentrating on a period marked by the rise of discourses on Aboriginality championing indigenous empowerment, self-determination, and reconciliation, the author analyses how travel to Black Australia has become, for many travelers, a means of discovering ‘new’—and potentially transformative—styles of interracial engagement.
Aboriginal Women's Narratives
Author: Nadja Zierott
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9783825882372
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Due to widespread geographical and cultural displacement, Australian Aboriginal people have experienced the destruction of their identity. This identity is traditionally closely linked to the land and the people, so that Aborigines feel an intense longing to rediscover their roots and reclaim their identity. In order to do this, they need to individually reconstruct their past, for instance by writing down their life stories. Thus Aboriginal women like Ruby Langford Ginibi have embarked on a process of reconnecting with their roots through the medium of autobiography. In discussing three of these autobiographies, this book examines the role of autobiographical narrative in the process of Australian Aboriginal women reclaiming their identity.
Storying Social Movement/s
Author: Louise Gwenneth Phillips
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-01-01
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 3031096673
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book stories social movements on the margins. Foregrounding historically silenced, dismissed and ignored Aboriginal, young, voiceless, and intersex Australian activists, the book theorizes how movement away from exclusionary praxis at the margins can offer renewed hope. Using diverse and creative forms of research underpinned by storying, social movement and critical race theoretical knowledge with a commitment to social justice, this book will be of interest and value to scholars of cultural studies, Indigenous studies, education, human geography, political sciences, and sociology.
Aboriginal Mythology
Author: Mudrooroo
Publisher: ETT Imprint
Published: 2018-09-01
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1925706346
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Aboriginals believe they have lived in Australia since the Dreamtime, the beginning of all creation, and archaeological evidence shows the land has been inhabited for tens of thousands of years. Over this time, Aboriginal culture has grown a rich variety of mythologies in hundreds of different languages. Their unifying feature is a shared belief that the whole universe is alive, that we belong to the land and must care for it. This was the first book to collate and explain the many fascinating elements of Aboriginal culture: the song circles and stories, artefacts, landmarks, characters and customs.
Entangled Subjects
Author: Michèle Grossman
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9401209138
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Indigenous Australian cultures were long known to the world mainly from the writing of anthropologists, ethnographers, historians, missionaries, and others. Indigenous Australians themselves have worked across a range of genres to challenge and reconfigure this textual legacy, so that they are now strongly represented through their own life-narratives of identity, history, politics, and culture. Even as Indigenous-authored texts have opened up new horizons of engagement with Aboriginal knowledge and representation, however, the textual politics of some of these narratives – particularly when cross-culturally produced or edited – can remain haunted by colonially grounded assumptions about orality and literacy. Through an examination of key moments in the theorizing of orality and literacy and key texts in cross-culturally produced Indigenous life-writing, Entangled Subjects explores how some of these works can sustain, rather than trouble, the frontier zone established by modernity in relation to ‘talk’ and ‘text’. Yet contemporary Indigenous vernaculars offer radical new approaches to how we might move beyond the orality–literacy ‘frontier’, and how modernity and the a-modern are Productively entangled in the process.
Reading Aboriginal Women's Life Stories
Author: Anne Brewster
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Published: 2016-01-07
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 1743324189
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A wave of life stories and autobiographical narratives by Aboriginal women began in the late 1970s and gained momentum a decade later with the publication of Sally Morgan’s My Place (1987), which became a bestseller. While some of the books of the first wave focused mainly (if not exclusively) on the author, Aboriginal women’s life stories widened over time to include transgenerational histories of the family. Reading Aboriginal Women’s Life Stories is an important discussion of books that have shaped our understanding of contemporary Indigenous Australian literature. Anne Brewster provides an in-depth textual analysis of three key titles and situates them in relation to concepts of history, race, gender, family, storytelling and Aboriginality in modern Australia. “Looking back, we can recognise now what an extraordinary phenomenon these life stories are, and how they have changed understandings of Aboriginality and writing … The return of this classic book in a new edition is a welcome reminder that Anne Brewster’s careful, deeply respectful and informed approach to these writings is as necessary now as it ever was.” —Professor Gillian Whitlock FAHA
