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y separately published work icon Banggaiyerri : The Story of Jack Sullivan, as Told to Bruce Shaw single work   life story  
Note: As told to Bruce Shaw.
Issue Details: First known date: 1983... 1983 Banggaiyerri : The Story of Jack Sullivan, as Told to Bruce Shaw
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'Bruce Shaw met Jack in 1973 and late that year began tape recording his reminiscences. Shaw's first transcription yielded nearly 800 pages of text. ...Jack Sullivan spoke in a style mid-way between Pidgin/Creole English and a colloquial bush slang used by white stockmen. Dialogue was an intrinsic part of the oral tradition upon which Jack was drawing and consequently Bruce Shaw has written Jack's accounts in standard colloquial English, while rendering direct speech in Aboriginal English.' (Back cover).

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* Contents derived from the Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,:Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies , 1983 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Introduction, Bruce Shaw , single work non-fiction

'Shaw summarises the history of the East Kimberley region from the first white contact in the late 1870s to the 1970s, as well as detailing some of the problems encounterd in the writing of ... [Banggaiyerri : The Story of Jack Sullivan]'

(Source: Banggaiyerri : The Story of Jack Sullivan, as told to Bruce Shaw, 1983, back cover)

 (p. pp. 1-27)
From Banggaiyerri: The story of Jack Sullivan: Introduction, Bruce Shaw , single work life story (p. 1-27)
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Works about this Work

[Review Essay] Banggaiyerri : The Story of Jack Sullivan; Countrymen : The Life Histories of Four Aboriginal Men A. Shnukal , 1990 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 1 1990; (p. 57-59)

'In late 1973, Bruce Shaw began recording the life-histories of several elderly Aboriginal Australians of the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. These two monographs, the result of a long process of transcription, collaborative editing, translation and revision, are the second and third in a series of six proposed volumes, the first of which, My Country of the Pelican Dreaming , appeared in 1981.' (Introduction)
Aboriginal Representations in Australian Texts Vijay C. Mishra , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture , vol. 2 no. 1 1987;
Thoughts on Aboriginal Literature Jim Kable , 1985 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Aboriginal Child at School , February/March vol. 13 no. 1 1985; (p. 31-52)
Thoughts on Aboriginal Literature Jim Kable , 1985 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Aboriginal Child at School , February/March vol. 13 no. 1 1985; (p. 31-52)
Aboriginal Representations in Australian Texts Vijay C. Mishra , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture , vol. 2 no. 1 1987;
[Review Essay] Banggaiyerri : The Story of Jack Sullivan; Countrymen : The Life Histories of Four Aboriginal Men A. Shnukal , 1990 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 1 1990; (p. 57-59)

'In late 1973, Bruce Shaw began recording the life-histories of several elderly Aboriginal Australians of the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. These two monographs, the result of a long process of transcription, collaborative editing, translation and revision, are the second and third in a series of six proposed volumes, the first of which, My Country of the Pelican Dreaming , appeared in 1981.' (Introduction)
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