Eclipse / Bobbi Sykes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sykes, Roberta B.

Series:

UQP Black Australian writers

UQP Black Australian writers series

UQP paperbacks

Language:

English

Physical Description:

38 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press ; Portland, Or. : Distributed in the USA and Canada by International Specialized Book Services, 1996.

Summary:

"Identities- Who am I?" Thus begins one of Bobbi's poems and perhaps this is a question which needed to be answered, for we remember her media images of the seventies when the struggle was new and hot and what we have now was won then. It is easy for Australia to forget its political heroes, to deny them a place in this here now country. Sportspeople fill our need for instant heroes and we forget those who ran other races. I have read the prose work of Dr Roberta Sykes and am now privileged to read the fights of Bobbi's Poetry. Mudrooroo from Foreword Dr Roberta Sykes was winner of the 1994 Australian Human Rights Medal. Eclipse gives voice to mothers, to daughters who do not know their fathers, to men who cannot know themselves in a white world fraught with tensions.

ISBN:

0702228486

OCLC:

35586917