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Issue Details: First known date: 1977... 1977 Here Comes the Nigger
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Meanjin vol. 36 no. 3 Spring 1977 Z611978 1977 periodical issue 1977 pg. 479-493
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Paperbark : A Collection of Black Australian Writings Jack Davis (editor), Stephen Muecke (editor), Mudrooroo (editor), Adam Shoemaker (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1990 Z299632 1990 anthology poetry drama short story criticism prose autobiography biography (taught in 2 units)

    'This is the first collection to span the diverse range of Black Australian writings. Thirty-six Aboriginal and Islander authors have contributed, including David Unaipon, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Gerry Bostock, Ruby Langford, Robert Bropho, Jack Davis, Hyllus Maris, William Ferguson, Sally Morgan, Mudrooroo Narogin and Archie Weller. Many more are represented through community writings such as petitions and letters.

    Collected over six years from all the states and territories of Australia, Paperbark ranges widely across time and genre from the 1840s to the present, from transcriptions of oral literature to rock opera. Prose, poetry, song, drama and polemic are accompanied by the selected artworks of Jimmy Pike, and an extensive, up-to-date bibliography.The voices of Black Australia speak with passion and power in this challenging and important anthology.' Source: Publisher's blurb.

    St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1990
    pg. 299-310
    Note: Editor's note: Gerry Bostock's Here Comes the Nigger was first performed at the Black Theatre, Redfern, in 1976. Portions of the original playscript were printed in Meanjin in December 1977, although the enture text has never been published. The excerpt reproduced below is taken from a revised version of the play, transformed by the author into draft filmscript.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Concert of Voices : An Anthology of World Writing in English Victor J. Ramraj , Peterborough : Broadview Press , 1995 7228368 1995 anthology drama poetry short story

    'Concert of Voices combines poetry, fiction, drama and essays in a wide-ranging anthology of world literature in English. The collection includes a number of established writers who, despite their great reputations, have often been perceived as standing apart from the main currents of English literature (and have rarely found their way onto English Department reading lists). Most selections, through, are by a remarkable range of much less established authors. In addition to the selections, the editor has provided a general introduction and a brief biographical note on each author.' (Source: back cover)

    Peterborough : Broadview Press , 1995
    pg. 60-67
    Note: Editor's note: Gerry Bostock's Here Comes the Nigger was first performed at the Black Theatre, Redfern, in 1976. Portions of the original playscript were printed in Meanjin in December 1977, although the entire text has never been published. The excerpt reproduced below is taken from a revised version of the play, transformed by the author into a draft filmscript.
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