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y separately published work icon Karan single work   novel  
Is part of Nuclear Cycle 1983 series - author novel (number 2 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 Karan
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Notes

  • Dedication: To the unknown tribesman, victim of nuclear testing in Australia.
  • Epigraph: What times are these / when a poem about a flower is a sin, / because of so many silences / about so many sins. - Bertolt Brecht
  • Epigraph: They wander about forever / men of Blood Gum Tree / men of Ghost Gum Tree. - Clan of 'Karan', lost in bush (Tribal chant from Australia)
  • Author's note: This book is fiction. However, in the 1950s and 1960s the British carried out nuclear testing on tribal areas of South Australia. It was revealed to the Royal Commission, set up in 1984 by the Australian government to inquire into this activity, that the testing, which lasted for about a decade, had a lethal effect on Aboriginal tribal man and his culture. The testing preceded a severe drought.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Dodd, Mead ,       1985 .
      image of person or book cover 1397375341152215693.jpg
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      Extent: xix, 248p.p.
      Edition info: 1st ed.
      Note/s:
      • Includes glossary.
      ISBN: 0396087221
    • South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: London,
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      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Macmillan ,       1986 .
      Extent: 248p.
      ISBN: 0333430123
    • c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,      :       George Braziller ,       1991 .
      Alternative title: Karan : a novel of Australia
      Extent: xix, 248p.p.
      ISBN: 0807612421
Alternative title: Die Seele : Roman aus Australien
Language: German
Notes:
This translation also published :- Berlin : Aufbau, 1987; Goettingen : Lamuv Verlag, 1996
    • Bornheim-Merten,
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      Germany,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Lamuv Verlag ,       1985 .
      Extent: 262p.
      ISBN: 3889770363
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Works about this Work

(Re)Writing the End of the World : Apocalypse, Race, and Indigenous Literature Roslyn Weaver , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film : A Critical Study 2011; (p. 135-158) 'This chapter addresses apocalyptic writing in the context of race, and specifically authors who rewrite Australian history as apocalypse to represent the impact of white colonization on Indigenous peoples. The disaster scenarios of apocalypse can allow minority groups to invent a new world in which to challenge and change dominant cultural constructions for widely differing agendas. The apocalyptic paradigm of revelation and disaster can work effectively to interrogate the history of colonization and relations between white and Indigenous Australians.' (136)
B. Wongar - Teaching an Emu How to Fly Marilyn Strelau , 1996 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 10 no. 1 1996; (p. 29-32)
y separately published work icon B. Wongar : Interview Daniel R. Willbanks (interviewer), Z104212 1992 single work interview
In the Tracks of the Reader, In the Tracks of B. Wongar Michael Connor , David Matthews , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 48 no. 4 1989; (p. 713-721)
Untitled Bill Ashcroft , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 283-284)
— Review of Walg : A Novel of Australia B. Wongar , 1983 single work novel ; Karan B. Wongar , 1985 single work novel
Ant-ipodean Tom Aitken , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 4-10 November 1988; (p. 1236)
— Review of Gabo Djara B. Wongar , 1987 single work novel ; Karan B. Wongar , 1985 single work novel
Black Novels of Betrayal and Genocide Dianne Johnson , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10 January 1987; (p. 39)
— Review of Walg : A Novel of Australia B. Wongar , 1983 single work novel ; Karan B. Wongar , 1985 single work novel
Untitled Bill Ashcroft , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 283-284)
— Review of Walg : A Novel of Australia B. Wongar , 1983 single work novel ; Karan B. Wongar , 1985 single work novel
Aborigines Enter the Nuclear Age Sue Standing , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Boston Herald , 8 December 1985;
— Review of Karan B. Wongar , 1985 single work novel
Anawari Feels Restless Evan S. Connell , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: The New York Times Book Review , 15 December 1985; (p. 8)
— Review of Karan B. Wongar , 1985 single work novel
(Re)Writing the End of the World : Apocalypse, Race, and Indigenous Literature Roslyn Weaver , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film : A Critical Study 2011; (p. 135-158) 'This chapter addresses apocalyptic writing in the context of race, and specifically authors who rewrite Australian history as apocalypse to represent the impact of white colonization on Indigenous peoples. The disaster scenarios of apocalypse can allow minority groups to invent a new world in which to challenge and change dominant cultural constructions for widely differing agendas. The apocalyptic paradigm of revelation and disaster can work effectively to interrogate the history of colonization and relations between white and Indigenous Australians.' (136)
y separately published work icon B. Wongar : Interview Daniel R. Willbanks (interviewer), Z104212 1992 single work interview
In the Tracks of the Reader, In the Tracks of B. Wongar Michael Connor , David Matthews , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 48 no. 4 1989; (p. 713-721)
B. Wongar - Teaching an Emu How to Fly Marilyn Strelau , 1996 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 10 no. 1 1996; (p. 29-32)
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