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'One of the most significant Indigenous Australian authors, Ruby Langford Ginibi, a member
of the Bundjalung Nation and the Sydney Koori community, took the courageous step in
1988, the year of the Bicentenary of British colonisation of Australia, of telling a largely
ignorant non-Aboriginal audience about what it was like to live her life. She recorded this life
in a pivotal text: Don't Take Your Love to Town. This book, as the pages which follow
indicate, had a lasting impact on many readers, both in Australia and worldwide. Thus began
an extraordinary writing career, a career seemingly out of step with an equally extraordinary
life lived in bush camps and subsidised housing, raising nine of her own children and many
of other people's, working in backbreaking menial jobs not considered suitable for 'white'
women. This edition of the Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia is to
honour the life of Dr Aunty Ruby Langford Ginibi, her works and her contributions, large
and public, larger and private, to literature and history, in Australia and worldwide, to
institutions and individuals.' (Authors introduction, 1)
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A Life for the Truth : A Tribute to Ruby Langford Ginibi
Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia
Subjects:
- Telling it Like It Is : A Guide to Making Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History 1992 single work
- Don't Take Your Love to Town 1988 single work autobiography
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