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y separately published work icon My Place single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 My Place
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'In 1982, Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmother's birthplace. What started as a tentative search for information about her family, turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. My Place is a moving account of a search for truth into which a whole family is gradually drawn, finally freeing the tongues of the author's mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories.' Source: Publisher's blurb.

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Sally's Story - Our Story Sally Morgan , 1995 1995 single work drama

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Notes

  • Selected for the 2003 Books Alive promotion.
  • Dedication: To My Family.
  • Epigraph: How deprived we would have been / if we had been willing / to let things stay as they were. / We would have survived, / but not as a whole people. / We would never have known / our place.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 1987 .
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      Cover image courtesy of the publisher.
      Extent: 358p.
      Reprinted: 1987 August, September and October 1987 , 1988 Mass paperback edition published 1988
      Note/s:
      • Cover illustration on first edition: painting by Sally Morgan, depicting her grandmother's journey. Includes portrait of the author.
      ISBN: 0949206245, 094206318
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Virago ,       1988 .
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      Extent: 358p.
      ISBN: 0860681483 (pbk)
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Seaver Books ,       1988 .
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      This image has been sourced from online.
      Alternative title: My Place : An Aborigine's Stubborn Quest for Her Truth, Heritage, and Origins
      Extent: 360p.
      Edition info: 1st American ed.
    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 1989 .
      Extent: 358p.
      Edition info: Illustrated edition.
      ISBN: 0949206571
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Arcade ,       1990 .
      Extent: 360p.
      ISBN: 1559700548
    • Boston, Massachusetts,
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Little, Brown ,       1990 .
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      Alternative title: My Place : The Australian 'Roots'
      Extent: 360p.
      ISBN: 0316582891
    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 1999 .
      Extent: 440p.
      ISBN: 0949206318, 1863682783 (hbk.)
    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 2003 .
      Extent: 1 v.p.
      Edition info: Special ed.
      ISBN: 1920731377
    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 2008 .
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      Extent: 496ppp.
      Note/s:
      • 21st Anniversary Edition
      ISBN: 9781921361227
    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 1990 .
      Extent: 3vp.
      Note/s:
      • Adaptation for younger readers in three volume Sally's Story , Arthur Corunna's Story and Mother and Daughter. Volumes individually indexed.
      • Edited by Barbara Ker Wilson.
      ISBN: 0949206792, 0949206776, 0949206784
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Part of the Grand-Daughter's Story... Sally Morgan , 1987 extract autobiography (My Place)
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Quarterly , 6-7 June 1987; (p. 1-2)
Part of the Mother's Story... Sally Morgan , 1987 extract autobiography (My Place)
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Quarterly , 6-7 June 1987; (p. 1)
Part of the Grandmother's Story... Sally Morgan , 1987 extract autobiography (My Place)
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Quarterly , 6-7 June 1987; (p. 1)
Daisy Corunna's Story (1900-1983) Sally Morgan , 1988 extract autobiography (My Place)
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 10 no. 1-2 1988; (p. 121-128)
From Gladys Corunna's Story (c.1931-1983) Sally Morgan , 1988 extract autobiography (My Place)
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 10 no. 1-2 1988; (p. 117-121)
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Works about this Work

Sally Morgan’s My Place : Reading the Australian Aboriginal Women as the Marginalised 'Other' Payel Paul , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Marginality in Australian Literature 2023; (p. 146-160)
Australia in Three Books : I, Memoir Amy Gray , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , December vol. 82 no. 4 2023; (p. 40-43) Meanjin Online 2023;
— Review of Blueberries Ellena Savage , 2020 selected work prose ; My Place Sally Morgan , 1987 single work autobiography 'I have a story. It will tell you something about me. You may already know me from That Thing or That Event, which I'm now using as a return to writing. That thing about me? It's sad. I will try to connect it to a broader social statement, perhaps something trite that can be laid over a nice pastel sunset for your grid, but mainly the only thing new about it is the chance to squint into another person's life before you find the next hit.' (Publication abstract)
Staying White Melissa Lucashenko , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Monthly , August 2023; (p. 24-30) 'Jan Morris, a Welsh travel writer who knew a thing or two about identity transition, predicted in her 1992 book Sydney that mainstream Australia was about to embrace its Aboriginal heritage. Just as the convict stain had lost its stigma, the “taint” of native blood would, she anticipated, soon become cause for celebration rather than shame. Perhaps she had been influenced by the huge success of My Place, Sally Morgan’s 1987 memoir of Palyku identity, which had Australians searching their family trees in droves.' (Introduction) 
Indigenous Futurism Iva Polak , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023;
Writing, Women and the Australian Novel Tanya Dalziell , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023;
[Review] My Place Jo Goodman , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 6 no. 2 1991; (p. 31)
— Review of My Place Sally Morgan , 1987 single work autobiography
Indigenous Voices Promoted at Fremantle Press 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 7 May no. 425 2008; (p. 47)
— Review of My Place Sally Morgan , 1987 single work autobiography ; Heartsick for Country : Stories of Love, Spirit and Creation 2008 anthology life story ; Bawoo Stories May L. O'Brien , 2008 selected work picture book
[Review] My Place Lesley White , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 22 no. 2 2008; (p. 45)
— Review of My Place Sally Morgan , 1987 single work autobiography
[Review] My Place Rita Blackburn , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 14 no. 1 2000; (p. 38)
— Review of My Place Sally Morgan , 1987 single work autobiography
On the Threshold of a Renaissance - Recent Aboriginal Writing in Australia Emmanuel S. Nelson , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , Winter vol. 4 no. 2 1990; (p. 131-133)
— Review of Story About Feeling Bill Neidjie , 1989 selected work poetry ; Wanamurraganya : The Story of Jack McPhee Sally Morgan , 1989 single work biography ; My Place Sally Morgan , 1987 single work autobiography ; Writing from the Fringe : A Study of Modern Aboriginal Literature Mudrooroo , 1990 single work criticism
'Worth in the Telling' : Tales of Trauma in Australian Aboriginal Narratives Clare Bradford , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Canadian Children's Literature , Winter vol. 27 no. 4 (104) 2001; (p. 8-25)
y separately published work icon Aboriginal Experience Lloyd Cameron , Glebe : Pascal Press , 1994 Z1019180 1994 single work criticism
form y separately published work icon Aboriginal Experience Martin Didsbury , 1994 Z1019197 1994 single work film/TV

'The stories told by Ruby Langford Ginibi in Don't Take Your Love to Town, Sally Morgan My Place, and Mudrooroo in Wild Cat Falling provide the starting point for discussions on some of the key events and issues that have affected Aboriginal people.

Part 1: 'Aboriginal Experience' looks at the practice of removing Aboriginal children from their families, and denial of Aboriginality and equal rights. Part 2: 'Reclaiming Identity' looks at the importance of the family and the land to Aboriginal people and their quest to reclaim their identity.'
y separately published work icon Recovery and Restoration : Changing Identities of Aboriginal Women in Australia Gail Hennessy , 1999 Z1019315 1999 single work thesis The thesis critically examines four autobiographical writers. These four writers, Margaret Tucker, Glenyse Ward, Sally Morgan and Ruby Langford Ginibi illustrate different ways of constructing an Aboriginal identity in their published texts.
Catch to $5 Cheapie For Bookbuyers Rosemary Sorensen , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 March 2003; (p. 7)
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