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 21
... once been a creek , and my stomach lurched . At the time there was only that gut feeling , but now , initially , I might explain it by way of dusty archives . The Inspector for Aborigines and Fisheries ' diary describes the pool where ...
... once been a creek , and my stomach lurched . At the time there was only that gut feeling , but now , initially , I might explain it by way of dusty archives . The Inspector for Aborigines and Fisheries ' diary describes the pool where ...
Page 410
... once again as I wrote this story of ours ; as if I was poised in space , precariously supported . Particularly when I wrote of my father , with the very many gaps , the many things I did not know about him . I knew him when I was a ...
... once again as I wrote this story of ours ; as if I was poised in space , precariously supported . Particularly when I wrote of my father , with the very many gaps , the many things I did not know about him . I knew him when I was a ...
Page 440
... Once again it left us , and once again we ran . And then my father fell , as I have written . He told me he was fine . We made a fire deep in a hollow among the dunes , and cooked the fish . ' No good trying to get out now with the ...
... Once again it left us , and once again we ran . And then my father fell , as I have written . He told me he was fine . We made a fire deep in a hollow among the dunes , and cooked the fish . ' No good trying to get out now with the ...
Common terms and phrases
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