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Always will be / Mykaela Saunders.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.4.S2826 A49 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saunders, Mykaela, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aboriginal Australians--Fiction.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Sovereignty--Fiction.
- Sovereignty.
- Torres Strait Islanders--Fiction.
- Torres Strait Islanders.
- Australian fiction.
- Tweed River (N.S.W.)--Fiction.
- Tweed River (N.S.W.).
- Australia--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- short stories.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- x, 310 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- St. Lucia, Qld. : UQP, 2024.
- Summary:
- In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question- what might country, community and culture look like in the Tweed if Gooris reasserted their sovereignty? Each of the stories in Always Will Be is set in its own future version of the Tweed. In one, a group of girls plot their escape from a home they have no memory of entering. In another, two men make a final visit to the country they love as they contemplate a new life in a faraway place. Saunders imagines different scenarios for how the local Goori community might reassert sovereignty - reclaiming country, exerting full self-determination, or incorporating non-Indigenous people into the social fabric - while practising creative, ancestrally approved ways of living with changing climates. Epic in scope, and with a diverse cast of characters, Always Will Be is the ground-breaking winner of the 2022 David Unaipon Award. This is a forward-thinking collection that refuses cynicism and despair, and instead offers entertaining stories that celebrate Goori ways of being, knowing, doing - and becoming.
- Contents:
- Note
- Jingi wallah
- Taking our time
- No country for old women
- A guided meditation for motivation and metamorphosis
- River story
- Fire bug
- Blood and soil
- Tweed Sanctuary tour
- Cultural immersion program
- The girls home
- The fisherman's story
- Terranora
- Cyclone season
- Our future in the stars
- Cold coast
- A prodigal return
- Kinship festival
- Bugalbeh!
- Notes:
- Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this item may contain names, recordings, images, photographs, illustrations and text of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive.
- ISBN:
- 9780702266386
- 0702266388
- OCLC:
- 1411216331
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