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'The Wailing is about memories: about the "long time", of poison in the flour, deadening years of protection and assimilation. but is also about the pride and power of black Australia in 1993. The Wailing is Australia's first national black oral history. Aboriginal history is oral history.' Source: Back cover.
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Dedication: For those who refused to die and for the eyes of children.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Port Melbourne,
South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area,
Melbourne - Inner South,
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Heinemann
, 1993 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Kilayurilapa : I Don't Want to Forget, Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work oral history (p. 15-36)
- Leaping like Witches, Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work oral history (p. 37-81)
- I Be Crying, Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work life story (p. 83-101)
- Under the Mission Bell, Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work oral history (p. 103-135)
- Swimming for Lilies, Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work oral history (p. 137-166)
- Broken Dreams, Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work oral history (p. 167-193)
- Born in that Hard Time, Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work oral history (p. 195-236)
- Bit of Flour and Tea and Sugar, single work oral history (p. 237-277)
- Ordinary White, Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work oral history (p. 279-318)
- Eraritjaritjaka Albutjika : Longing to Return Home, Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work oral history (p. 319-355)
- A Silent Tear Running Down, Stuart Rintoul (interviewer), single work oral history (p. 357-375)
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