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'This Fiction It Don't Go Away': Narrative As an Index to Palm Island's Past and Present
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'This Fiction It Don't Go Away': Narrative As an Index to Palm Island's Past and Present
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This article describes an abundant tradition of Palm Island narrrative, from early "whitewash" travelogues, to a previously unrecognised place-based corpus of black writing that includes the work of Boori Pryor. It discusses the presentation of Palm Island in poetry and in novels by Thea Astley and Elizabeth O'Conner.
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'This Fiction It Don't Go Away': Narrative As an Index to Palm Island's Past and Present
Queensland Review
Subjects:
- The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow 1996 single work novel
- Spirit Man 1980 single work novel
- My Island of Dreams single work non-fiction
- North-West by North : A Journal of a Voyage 1935 single work autobiography
- Dreamtime Nightmares : Biographies of Aborigines under the Queensland Aborigines Act 1985 anthology biography
- This Is Palm Island 1978 single work autobiography
- Uncivilised 1936 single work film/TV
- Palm Island, Ingham area, Ingham - Cairns area, Queensland,
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