Benang: From the HeartOceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, this intriguing journey is a celebration and lament--of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing, and of powerful utterance. Both tentative and daring, it speaks to the present and a possible future through stories, dreams, rhythms, songs, images and documents mobilized from the incompletely acknowledged and still dynamic past. |
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Page 385
... Tommy's father was often among the visitors , but rarely selected our Tommy to go with him . But sometimes a stranger would touch Tommy on the shoulder and ask him his name . He might be taken into the city , or to the beach where he ...
... Tommy's father was often among the visitors , but rarely selected our Tommy to go with him . But sometimes a stranger would touch Tommy on the shoulder and ask him his name . He might be taken into the city , or to the beach where he ...
Page 390
... Tommy was crouching , edging back to the cramped dark space beneath the troughs , and brandishing a mallee root he'd snatched from the pile . The boys were kicking at him . Tommy moved at them to give himself room to swing and to keep ...
... Tommy was crouching , edging back to the cramped dark space beneath the troughs , and brandishing a mallee root he'd snatched from the pile . The boys were kicking at him . Tommy moved at them to give himself room to swing and to keep ...
Page 432
... Tommy , in Ern's opinion , was unpredictable . Backsliding . Maybe with Tommy it wasn't going to work , not even with Tommy's kids even though he had married a white woman . But , the boy ... He was clever at school ( I was ) , he liked ...
... Tommy , in Ern's opinion , was unpredictable . Backsliding . Maybe with Tommy it wasn't going to work , not even with Tommy's kids even though he had married a white woman . But , the boy ... He was clever at school ( I was ) , he liked ...
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Aborigines arms Auber Aunty Australian Natives Association beach Benang bird boat camp campfire Chief Protector child Constable Hall Daniel Coolman dark Dinah Dubitj Creek dunes Ern's eyes face Fanny father feet felt fire Frederickstown Gebalup girl Grandad grandfather grandfather's grinning half-caste hands Harriette head heard held hessian horse Jack Chatalong Kathleen kids Kim Scott knew Kylie Bay land laughed listened looked mallee Mason Mogumber mother moved Mustle natives Neville Nyoongar Nyungar once paperbarks perhaps police policeman Protector of Aborigines quadroon railway rainwater tank remember sand seemed Sergeant Hall shoulder sister skin smile someone Starr stay talk teamsters thin things thought told Tommy took Topsy town trees turned Uncle Jack voice wagon walked wanted watched wife wind Wirlup Haven woman women words Yeah