Description
A groundbreaking presentation, in a revised edition, of Indigenous Australian storytelling as it actually sounds; these stories provide a fascinating picture of the life of the people of the west Kimberley after colonisation. Paddy Roe was a legendary figure in the revival and maintenance of law and culture in the Broome area in the mid-twentieth century. In this book he continues and revitalises one of the great literary traditions of Australia.
Stephen Muecke is a leading Australian academic whose work has encompassed a number of disciplines in the humanities. With Paddy Roe, Muecke is co-writer of the prize-winning Reading the Country.
"A challenge, a delight...no short sample could give an adequate sense of the vivacious, artful naturalness of Paddy Roe's recitations...a deeply beguiling book" - Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Times Literary Supplement.
"A remarkable book...a new tradition in Australian Literature has just been born" - Bob Hodge, Westerly.
"Recommended to all who are interested in how Aboriginal identity came to be what it is, and as a sensitive evocation of Aboriginality as it was" - Annette Schmidt, Meanjin.
"To read this book is to be always moving somewhere else, away from the confines of Western literature, of settlement, and of the edifice of colonial thought." - Stuart Cooke, The Conversation.
Author: Paddy Roe, Stephen Muecke
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
Published: 11/01/2016
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.35d
ISBN13: 9781742589275
ISBN10: 1742589278
BISAC Categories:
- History | Australia & New Zealand | General
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | Historical & Comparative
- History | Modern | 20th Century | General
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