“we live on, in story”

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Title“we live on, in story”
Year for Search2020
AuthorsWyld, Karen
Secondary AuthorsAhmad, Michael Mohammed
Secondary TitleAfter Australia
Pagination9-26
Date Published2020
PublisherAffirm Press/Diversity Arts Australia/Sweatshop Literary Movement
Place PublishedSouth Melbourne, VIC, Australia
ISBN Number9781925972818
KeywordsAustralian author, Female author
Annotation

The story is told by a mixed race descendent of an Aboriginal woman who had been raped by the head of the settler family who had disposed her people from their land.

Info Notes

The book includes a “Prologue Black Thoughts: Unreconciliatory Futures” (1-7), Interludes “Black Thoughts: Miscegenation” (77-85) and “Black Thoughts: Horses and Mules” (159-163), and an Epilogue “Black Thoughts: Pemulwuy” (251-257) by Hannah Donnelly, a Wiradjuri writer who is Curator of Aboriginal Programs at Carriageworks, and an Afterword “A Timeline to 2050” (259-265) by Linda Nahlous, Executive Director, Diversity Arts Australia.

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

Australian female author of the Martu people ancestry.
Full Text

2020 Wyld, Karen. “we live on, in story.” After Australia. Ed. Michael Mohammed Ahmad (South Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Affirm Press/Diversity Arts Australia/Sweatshop Literary Movement, 2020), 9-26. The book includes a “Prologue Black Thoughts: Unreconciliatory Futures” (1-7), Interludes “Black Thoughts: Miscegenation” (77-85) and “Black Thoughts: Horses and Mules” (159-163), and an Epilogue “Black Thoughts: Pemulwuy” (251-257) by Hannah Donnelly, a Wiradjuri writer who is Curator of Aboriginal Programs at Carriageworks, and an Afterword “A Timeline to 2050” (259-265) by Linda Nahlous, Executive Director, Diversity Arts Australia. PSt 

The story is told by a mixed race descendent of an Aboriginal woman who had been raped by the head of the settler family who had disposed her people from their land. Australian female author of the Martu people ancestry.