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Gay Breyley Gay Breyley i(A86132 works by) (birth name: Gay Jennifer Breyley) (a.k.a. G. J. Breyley)
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1 A Ticket to Nowhere : Coming-of-Age in Two Twentieth-Century Indigenous Australian Memoirs Gay Breyley , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing 2010; (p. 187-206) The author looks at the autobiographical writings of two Aboriginal women with specific focus on their adolescent memories. Particular attention is given to the way each narrator increases her level of personal agency in adolescence, making decisions that condition their respective futures.
1 Fearing the Protector, Fearing the Protected : Indigenous and 'National' Fears in Twentieth-century Australia Gay Breyley , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 23 no. 1 2009; (p. 43-48)

'This essay examines the effects of early to mid twentieth-century government policies of 'protection' and assimilation on indigenous Australian lives. It focuses on childhood fears as recounted by Baarkanji memoirist Evelyn Crawford in her transcribed oral history, Over My Tracks, and on 'national' fears as represented in public spheres.'
1 Diasporic Transpositions: Indigenous and Jewish Performances of Mourning in 20th-Century Australia Gay Breyley , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Ethnomusicology Forum , vol. 16 no. 1 2007; (p. 95-126) 'Twentieth-century Australia was the site of a range of diasporic encounters, as well as the continuing effects of colonization and simultaneous movements towards decolonization. Extensive mid-century immigration schemes saw hundreds of thousands of (selected) Europeans migrate to Australia, including Jewish Holocaust survivors, or displaced persons as they were known then. After Israel, Australia's population now has the highest proportion of Holocaust survivors in the world. Meanwhile, many of Australia's indigenous survivors of colonization were dispersed from their traditional lands, often working for rations in the pastoral industries. Only in the late 20th century was there sufficient popular interest in Australia for narratives of these displacements to enter such public spheres as popular music and literature. While there are clear and significant differences between Jewish and indigenous communities and their respective positions in Australia's history, both communities have been disproportionately afflicted with memories of loss and death. For both, mourning is a most significant practice. Through literary and musical sources, this article examines performances of mourning in Australia's Jewish and indigenous communities. It argues that these communities' practices do not represent cultures of hybridity, as is sometimes claimed. Rather, their performances of mourning may be read as complex transpositions, performed within dynamic cultures of survival. This is evident, for example, in a poetic adaptation of the Kaddish by Lily Brett, a child of Holocaust survivors and former rock journalist. In different ways, it is also evident in adaptations of country music by Bundjalung elder and bereaved mother Ruby Langford Ginibi and in adaptations of both Celtic folk and Baarkanji traditions by the late Baarkanji educator Evelyn Crawford.' -- from the Journal webpage.
1 y separately published work icon Memory, Music and Displacement in the Minor Memoirs of Evelyn Crawford, Ruby Langford Ginibi and Lily Brett Gay Breyley , Wollongong : 2005 Z1824795 2005 single work thesis 'This thesis investigates some legacies of colonialism and genocide through a reading of Evelyn Crawford's transcribed oral history Over My Tracks, Ruby Langford Ginibi's life narrative Don't Take Your Love To Town and Lily Brett's memory-based volumes of poetry After The War and Unintended Consequences.
These texts, for different but related reasons, constitute minor Australian memoirs. The thesis argues that new readings of such memoirs contribute to new understandings of the intersectional nature of cultural histories. The reading presented in this thesis is structured theoretically and thematically by a focus on memory, music and displacement. Using a theoretical framework based more closely on aural than on visual models, this reading brings the three narrating subjects into conversation and attends to their respective representations of ancestral legacies, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. With methods drawn from literary criticism, ethnomusicology and history, the thesis offers a new way of listening to the complex memories of displaced people and their descendants.' (Author's abstract)
1 Unfolding Australia's Fan of Memory : Music in Ruby Langford Ginibi's 'Don't Take Your Love to Town' Gay Breyley , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 84 2005; (p. 11-22)
1 'Grey Angels' : Ancestral Voices in Displaced Descendants' Memoirs Gay Breyley , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Regenerative Spirit : Volume 2 : (Un)settling, (Dis)locations, (Post-)colonial, (Re)presentations - Australian Post-Colonial Reflections 2004; (p. 251-263) In the work of Lily Brett, and Evelyn Crawford, Breyley sees writers from two different diasporas (Jewish and Baarkanji), and writing in two different forms, but each imagining the songs and languages of her ancestors, both known and unknown, and their resonance in the author's own worlds.
1 Kissing the Noose of Australian Democracy : Misplaced Faiths and Displaced Lives Converse Over Australia's Rising Fences Gay Breyley , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Borderlands , December vol. 2 no. 3 2003;
1 Displaced Mothers Respond: Intergenerational Responsibilities in and around the Texts of F.A. and Lily Brett Gay Breyley , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Altitude , no. 3 2003; Examines the work of Lily Brett and the unpublished texts of an Afghan woman who is known by the initials F.A.
1 Imagined Ancestral Communities of Displaced Australian Daughters: Evelyn Crawford's Over My Tracks and Lily Brett's After the War and Unintended Consequences Gay Breyley , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Prose Studies , December vol. 26 no. 1-2 2003; (p. 17-42) Women's Life Writing and Imagined Communities 2005; (p. 17-42)
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