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Dedication: for my mother Rita the inspiration of my life
and my truest Sister Girl, Ngaire (2022)
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Content indexing in process.
Contents
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Firing on in the Mind,
single work
criticism
'This article examines the life experiences of Aboriginal women domestics during the inter-war years of the the 1920s and 1930s. [...] Interviews were conducted in Brisbane in June and July 1987 with the late June Bond, Rita Huggins, Margaret Pickering and Agnes Williams of Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement, Daphne Lavelle from Hervey Bay and Annie Hansen from Lake Nash.' (p. 3).
- Wedmedi - If Only You Knew, single work criticism (p. 25-36)
- Writing My Mother's Life, single work criticism (p. 37-48)
- But You Couldn't Possibly ...!, single work autobiography (p. 49-57)
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Are All the Women White?,
single work
criticism
Jackie Huggins speaks with African American writer bell hooks, with radio presenter Nicola Joseph moderating.
- Reflections on Lilith (Written in an Aboriginal framework, trying for the humour), single work criticism (p. 71-77)
- White Apron Black Hands : Aboriginal Women Domestic Servants in Queensland, single work criticism (p. 78-82)
- Respect V Political Correctness, single work criticism (p. 83-87)
- The Mothering Tongue, single work autobiography (p. 94-98)
- Oppressed but Liberated, single work autobiography (p. 108-119)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Jackie Huggins Sister Girl : Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 22-28 January 2022;
— Review of Sister Girl : The Writings of Aboriginal Activist and Historian Jackie Huggins 1998 selected work prose interview essay biography'“I was fed on a diet of lies and invisibility about the true history of this country from a very young age,” recalls Jackie Huggins. In the new edition of her prescient 1998 book Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation, Dr Huggins writes history through kinship, storying Aboriginal women’s survival, agony and strength. This healing, Blak feminist book sounds the collective truth and strength of Aboriginal women’s voices into the chambers of a violent history that has tried to silence them.' (Introduction)
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Inscribing Difference and Resistance : Indigenous Women’s Personal Non-fiction and Life Writing in Australia and North America
Czech Republic
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Masaryk University Press
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2017
17204263
2017
multi chapter work
criticism
'The study examines the ways in which Indigenous women’s non-fiction published in the 1990s contributed to theoretical articulations of Indigenous feminism and to a historiographic counter-discourse which has intervened into the dominant narratives of nation-building in settler colonies. Personal non-fiction and life writing by Native American authors Paula Gunn Allen and Anna Lee Walters (USA), by First Nations authors Lee Maracle and Shirley Sterling (Canada), and by Aboriginal authors Jackie Huggins and Doris Pilkington Garimara (Australia) are analyzed in detail to demonstrate how a hybrid writing style, combining scholarly criticism with auto/biography and fictionalized storytelling, is used to inscribe Indigenous women’s cultural difference, subjugated knowledges, transgenerational trauma from colonization, and resistance to forced assimilation.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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BlackWords : Writers on Identity
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 3 2014; The BlackWords Essays 2015; (p. 2) The BlackWords Essays 2019;'In the 1960s Oodgeroo Noonuccal (then Kath Walker) hit the literary limelight as Australia’s first published ‘Aboriginal poet’ and since then Aboriginal writers have used their work as a form of self-definition and to defend our rights to our identity. Many authors are inspired by the need to redress historical government definitions of Aboriginality, to reclaim pride in First Nation status, to explain the diversity of Aboriginal experience, and to demonstrate the realities and complexities of ‘being Aboriginal’ in the 21st century.'
Source: Author's introduction.
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White Closets, Jangling Nerves and the Biopolitics of the Public Secret
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , June vol. 26 no. 2 2011; (p. 57-75) 'This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the 'raw nerves' that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of 'indifference' that Stanner identifies as being characteristic of 'European life' in Australia. Here I situate indifference as numbing the 'jangling' of 'raw nerves' and as cultivated, disseminated and feeding specific forms of public secrecy. How did the white men who enforces segregation by day and pursued Aboriginal women by night manage their 'jangling nerves, if indeed they did jangle? How did they manage to be seen and known and have their secrets kept for them, as much as by them. How did this contradiction of segregation and sexual intimacy, if indeed it is a contradiction, work, My hope is that if we can understand how the white men (and those around them), regulated these jangling nerves, then we might be able to understand the relationship between indifference, public secrecy and the biopolitical forms that Australian whiteness took in the twentieth century, and specifically in the period of assimilation, extending from the 1930s to, roughly, the end of the 1960s.' (Author's introduction p. 57)
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"Once Upon a Patriachy" : Cultural Translation in the Poetry of Romaine Moreton
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Partnership Id-Entities : Cultural and Literary Re-Insciption/s of the Feminine 2010; (p. 31-44)
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[Review] Jackie Huggins
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Queensland Review , May vol. 6 no. 1 1999; (p. 85)
— Review of Sister Girl : The Writings of Aboriginal Activist and Historian Jackie Huggins 1998 selected work prose interview essay biography -
To Write Wrongs
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , February vol. 4 no. 1 1999; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Across Country : Stories from Aboriginal Australia 1998 anthology short story ; Maybe Tomorrow 1998 single work autobiography ; Unwritten Histories 1998 selected work short story prose ; Sister Girl : The Writings of Aboriginal Activist and Historian Jackie Huggins 1998 selected work prose interview essay biography ; Shadow Child : A Memoir of the Stolen Generation 1998 single work autobiography -
Telling Stories of Loss, Trying to Heal
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 July 1999; (p. 23)
— Review of Sister Girl : The Writings of Aboriginal Activist and Historian Jackie Huggins 1998 selected work prose interview essay biography -
Sister Girl
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , July vol. 18 no. 3 1999; (p. 80-81)
— Review of Sister Girl : The Writings of Aboriginal Activist and Historian Jackie Huggins 1998 selected work prose interview essay biography -
Mixing It
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 11 no. 1999; (p. 10-13)
— Review of Sister Girl : The Writings of Aboriginal Activist and Historian Jackie Huggins 1998 selected work prose interview essay biography ; Miles of Post and Wire 1998 single work life story ; Indigenous Australian Voices : A Reader 1998 anthology extract poetry criticism autobiography prose short story -
Excerpt from 'Oppressed but Liberated'
1998
extract
autobiography
— Appears in: The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , September vol. 26 no. 2 1998; (p. 44-46) -
Negotiating Subjectivity : Indigenous Feminist Praxis and the Politics of Aboriginality in Alexis Wright’s Plains of Promise and Melissa Lucashenko’s Steam Pigs
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 185-202) -
Constructing Aboriginal and Dalit Women’s Subjectivity and Making “Difference” Speak : An Illustration through the Writings of Jackie Huggins, Kumud Pawde and Bama
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 70 no. 3 2010; (p. 95-115) Examines the 'construction of 'the subject' in the life-writings of Australian Aboriginal writer Jackie Huggins and the Indian Dalit writers Bama and Kumud Pawde.' (p. 95)
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"Once Upon a Patriachy" : Cultural Translation in the Poetry of Romaine Moreton
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Partnership Id-Entities : Cultural and Literary Re-Insciption/s of the Feminine 2010; (p. 31-44) -
White Closets, Jangling Nerves and the Biopolitics of the Public Secret
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , June vol. 26 no. 2 2011; (p. 57-75) 'This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the 'raw nerves' that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of 'indifference' that Stanner identifies as being characteristic of 'European life' in Australia. Here I situate indifference as numbing the 'jangling' of 'raw nerves' and as cultivated, disseminated and feeding specific forms of public secrecy. How did the white men who enforces segregation by day and pursued Aboriginal women by night manage their 'jangling nerves, if indeed they did jangle? How did they manage to be seen and known and have their secrets kept for them, as much as by them. How did this contradiction of segregation and sexual intimacy, if indeed it is a contradiction, work, My hope is that if we can understand how the white men (and those around them), regulated these jangling nerves, then we might be able to understand the relationship between indifference, public secrecy and the biopolitical forms that Australian whiteness took in the twentieth century, and specifically in the period of assimilation, extending from the 1930s to, roughly, the end of the 1960s.' (Author's introduction p. 57)