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'The First National Black Playwrights Conference and Workshop held in Canberra in January 1987 was a hectic affair. More than one participant called on Mudrooroo to use the proceedings (in the sense of what was happening) and the stories going around in a book. Doin Wildcat was that book. It has been called his most Aboriginal work and it should be as it stems from that historical conference and what happened there transferred of course to - well - the world of Wildcat. Wildcat, the prison graduate, drifting through life, making the most of the opportunities that come his way, relishing the pickings of the late 1980s... by the author of Wild Cat Falling.'(Publication summary)
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Dedication: To Jayne Lesley for inspiration
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Aboriginal Affair(s): Reflections on the Life of Mudrooroo
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: LINQ , December no. 39 2012; (p. 105-115)'The article reviews the controversial 'Mudrooroo Affair' with reference to unpublished work by Mudrooroo in which he comments on the public debate about his rights to define himself as Aboriginal and, by extension, have his work credited as Aboriginal. Such work makes it pertinent to review Mudrooroo's creative output since 1965 as literary experiments with life writing and to reconsider Mudrooroo's many literary 'performances' from this perspective. They are not only explorations of Aboriginal identity politics over,- the last five decades, but may also be seen as a far more personal investment in exploring Aboriginal identity through a progressively shifting but interrelated series of subjectivities that reflect the writer's own experience and inform his claim to Aboriginality.' (Publication summary)
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'Ein komplexes und wechselhaftes Spiel': Sprachliche Resignifikation in Kanak Sprak und Aboriginal English
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Polyculturalism and Discourse 2007; (p. 31-65) -
Mudrooroo : Crafty Imposter or Rebel with a Cause
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 21 no. 4 2004; (p. 101-110) -
Reality Rights in the Wildcat Trilogy
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Mongrel Signatures : Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo 2003; (p. 43-64) -
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Feminist Poetics : Poiesis, Performance, Histories
London
:
Routledge
,
1997
Z816636
1997
multi chapter work
criticism
'Feminist Poetics in concerned with all of these questions, but also with the issue of rewriting an older poetics for what it does not say about the marginalisation of the feminine. The first half of the book traces the trajectory of a particular, feminine, academic subject learning to find her voice. The second half uses that differently disciplined voice to re-read the textual traces of the Governor murder stories, murders committed against white women and children by black men in Australia in 1900. This book is a feminist poetics for those who are engaged in the teaching of literacies, and in the making of Knowledge about literacies.' (Publication summary)
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Aboriginal Writing Strives for a New "Koori" Script
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , Spring vol. 4 no. 1 1990; (p. 52-54)
— Review of Doin Wildcat : A Novel Koori Script 1988 single work novel ; The Nearest the White Man Gets : Aboriginal Narratives and Poems of New South Wales 1989 anthology short story poetry prose ; Plays From Black Australia 1989 anthology drama -
Another Cat Life
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 15 October 1988; (p. 14)
— Review of Doin Wildcat : A Novel Koori Script 1988 single work novel -
Harsh Lanscapes of the Mind
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 17-18 December 1988; (p. 7)
— Review of Doin Wildcat : A Novel Koori Script 1988 single work novel -
Untitled
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: Span , October no. 27 1988; (p. 108-111)
— Review of Doin Wildcat : A Novel Koori Script 1988 single work novel -
New Aboriginal Writing
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 49 no. 2 1989; (p. 260-262)
— Review of Doin Wildcat : A Novel Koori Script 1988 single work novel ; Don't Take Your Love to Town 1988 single work autobiography -
Reality Rights in the Wildcat Trilogy
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Mongrel Signatures : Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo 2003; (p. 43-64) -
Mudrooroo : Crafty Imposter or Rebel with a Cause
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 21 no. 4 2004; (p. 101-110) -
Writin Coori : Mudrooroo Narogin and Aboriginal Fiction
1992-1991
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Making of a Pluralist Australia 1950-1990: Selected Papers from the Inaugural EASA Conference 1991 1992; (p. 101-111) -
'Ein komplexes und wechselhaftes Spiel': Sprachliche Resignifikation in Kanak Sprak und Aboriginal English
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Polyculturalism and Discourse 2007; (p. 31-65) -
'Return' in Australian Fiction
1994
single work
criticism
— Appears in: 'Return' in Post-Colonial Writing : A Cultural Labyrinth 1994; (p. 41-49)
- Wild Cat Falling 1965 single work novel
- Bush,
- Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,
- Perth, Western Australia,
- Urban,
- 1960s
- 1970s
- 1980s