My PlaceRecounting experiences from travels back to her grandmother's birthplace, this classic of Australian literature documents what started out as a tentative search for information about the author's family--and turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. Unearthing political and societal issues contained within Australia's indigenous culture, this moving account of a search for truth--into which a whole family is gradually drawn--results in the freeing of tongues of the author's mother and grandmother, finally allowing them to tell their own stories. |
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Contents
Dedication | 5 |
The hospital | 7 |
The factory | 15 |
Im in the army now | 22 |
Drinking men | 29 |
Pretending | 39 |
Only a dream | 46 |
A change | 52 |
Home improvements | 145 |
A new career | 155 |
Owning up | 165 |
A beginning | 172 |
A visitor | 184 |
Where theres a will | 191 |
Part of our history | 204 |
Links with the past | 213 |
Family and friends | 59 |
Wildlife | 66 |
Curealls | 75 |
Getting ahead | 82 |
Triumphs and failures | 93 |
Growing up | 99 |
Rather peculiar pets | 111 |
A black grandmother | 117 |
What people are we? | 126 |
Make something of yourself | 133 |
The working life | 142 |
Arthur Corunnas Story | 221 |
Where to next? | 270 |
Return to Corunna | 276 |
Someone like me | 297 |
Gladys Corunnas Story | 303 |
Something serious | 384 |
Good news | 397 |
Daisy Corunnas Story | 405 |
The bird call | 435 |
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