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'The young Wooreddy recognised the omen immediately, accidentally stepping on it while bounding along the beach: something slimy, something eerily cold and not from the earth. Since it had come from the sea, it was an evil omen.
Soon after, many people died mysteriously, others disappeared without a trace, and once-friendly families became bitter enemies. The islanders muttered, 'It's the times', but Wooreddy alone knew more: the world was coming to an end.
In Mudrooroo's unforgettable novel, considered by many to be his masterpiece, the author evokes with fullest irony the bewilderment and frailty of the last native Tasmanians, as they come face to face with the clumsy but inexorable power of their white destroyers. ...' (Source: Goodreads website)
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Refuse/Refuge : Castaways on Islands of Exception
2023
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Interventions : International Journal of Postcolonial Studies , vol. 25 no. 1 2023; (p. 11-29)'At various points in their (post)colonial histories, the border-protective politics of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand have mobilized off-shore islands as spaces of “inclusive exclusion”. Yet, even as spaces of exception and/or exclusion, off-shore islands dismantle inside/outside distinctions. I discuss a selection of Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand novels featuring both literal and metaphorical islands used for removal, internment or containment of Indigenous peoples and wartime “enemy aliens”. Through their attention to the poetics of island form, and coasts as more-than-human spaces, the novels underscore how islands bring the relation between inside and outside into question, complicating the articulation of borders.' (Publication abstract)
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The Outcast
2020
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 20 June 2020; (p. 17) -
Dr Power's Prescription for the Fabrication of a Tasmanian Imagination
2019
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criticism
— Appears in: Island , no. 158 2019; (p. 36-41) 'Carmel Bird revisits Dr Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the End of the World.' -
Anthropocene and the End of the World : Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Other Disasters
2019
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— Appears in: Anglophone Literature and Culture in the Anthropocene 2019; (p. 158-175) Analyses a series of Australian novels in terms of their dystopian approach to climate change. -
Utopia and Utopian Studies in Australia
2016
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criticism
— Appears in: Utopian Studies , vol. 27 no. 2 2016; (p. 200-209) 'There are no independently Australian translations of Thomas More’s Utopia. Nor is there any equivalent in Australia to the Society for Utopian Studies in North America or the Utopian Studies Society in Europe. Nor are there any extant formal research groups or undergraduate or graduate courses in utopian studies. There are, however, distinctively Australian traditions of utopian writing, both eutopian and dystopian, and also a limited field of Australian utopian studies, essentially the work of individual scholars. This article attempts a brief description of both.' (Publication summary)
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How Do You Like Your History Done?
1984
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review
— Appears in: Overland , September no. 96 1984; (p. 66-68)
— Review of A Change for the Better : short stories 1984 selected work short story ; The Cut-Rate Kingdom 1980 single work novel ; White Stag of Exile 1984 single work novel ; Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World 1983 single work novel -
Sympathy Subtly Woven
1984
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review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February-March no. 58 1984; (p. 23-24)
— Review of Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World 1983 single work novel -
When Whites Collide in the Dreamtime
1984
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 February 1984; (p. 14)
— Review of Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World 1983 single work novel -
Tasmania Before White People Invaded
1987
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— Appears in: The Mercury , 23 May 1987;
— Review of Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World 1983 single work novel -
The Book Magazine
1988
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— Appears in: The Book Magazine , Autumn vol. 1 no. 4 1988; (p. 8)
— Review of Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World 1983 single work novel -
Dominionisation or Infiltration : Religion and the Territorial Imperative in Post-Colonial Writing
2003
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criticism
— Appears in: Resistance and Reconciliation : Writing in the Commonwealth 2003; (p. 114-129) -
Clio and Calliope : Documentation and Narration in 'Third-World' Historical Writing
1997
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— Appears in: Aratjara : Aboriginal Culture and Literature in Australia 1997; (p. 97-108) -
Mudrooroo's Encounters with Missionaries
2003
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— Appears in: Mongrel Signatures : Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo 2003; (p. 167-184) -
Identity Crises and Orphaned Rewritings
2003
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— Appears in: Mongrel Signatures : Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo 2003; (p. 107-128) -
Doctor Wooreddy's War against Time
2003
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— Appears in: Mongrel Signatures : Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo 2003; (p. 83-105)
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