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Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 Songman
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

"Set in Northern Australia, before the time of the white man, Songman is an adventure story of Yukuwa of the Yolngu people, who embarks on a voyage across pirate-infested waters to the Celebes." (Source: The National Library of Australia)

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has an Asian setting.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking , 1994 .
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Alternative title: Songman
Language: German
    • Munich,
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      Germany,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Egmont Schneider ,       1996 .
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      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 253p.
      ISBN: 3505103683
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Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Unsettling Narratives : Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature Clare Bradford , Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press , 2007 Z1415102 2007 single work criticism

'Children's books seek to assist children to understand themselves and their world. Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position child readers as citizens of postcolonial nations, how they represent the colonial past to modern readers, what they propose about race relations, and how they conceptualize systems of power and government.

Clare Bradford focuses on texts produced since 1980 in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand and includes picture books, novels, and films by Indigenous and non-Indigenous publishers and producers. From extensive readings, the author focuses on key works to produce a thorough analysis rather than a survey. Unsettling Narratives opens up an area of scholarship and discussion - the use of postcolonial theories - relatively new to the field of children's literature and demonstrates that many texts recycle the colonial discourses naturalized within mainstream cultures ' (From publisher's catalogue).

Contents: Introduction. Part One: 'When Languages Collide': Resistance and Representation 1. Language, Resistance, and Subjectivity.2. Indigenous Texts and Publishers.3. White Imaginings.4. Telling the Past. Part Two: Place and Postcolonial Significations.5. Space, Time, Nation. 6. Borders, Journeys, and Liminality.7. Politics and Place.8. Allegories of Place and Race.Conclusion
Editor's Introduction: Always Facing the Issues - Preoccupations in Australian Children's Literature John Stephens , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lion and the Unicorn , April vol. 27 no. 2 2003; (p. v-xvii)
Young Readers Alan Horsfield , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Multicultural Book Review , vol. 4 no. 2 1996; (p. 66)
— Review of Songman Allan Baillie , 1994 single work novel
[Review] Songman 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 9 no. 2 1995; (p. 51)
— Review of Songman Allan Baillie , 1994 single work novel
[Review] Songman Marlene Dullard , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 9 no. 1 1995; (p. 6)
— Review of Songman Allan Baillie , 1994 single work novel
[Review] Songman Moira Robinson , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 10 no. 1 1995; (p. 30)
— Review of Songman Allan Baillie , 1994 single work novel
[Review] Songman Marlene Dullard , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 9 no. 1 1995; (p. 6)
— Review of Songman Allan Baillie , 1994 single work novel
[Review] Songman 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 9 no. 2 1995; (p. 51)
— Review of Songman Allan Baillie , 1994 single work novel
Macassan Dreaming Liam Davison , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 18 February 1995; (p. 7)
— Review of Gulliver in the South Seas Gary Crew , 1994 single work picture book ; Songman Allan Baillie , 1994 single work novel
The Complex Lives of the Young Adrift in the Chaotic World of Adults Pam Macintyre , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 15 July 1995; (p. 7)
— Review of Fracture Zone Jonathan Harlen , 1994 single work novel ; Songman Allan Baillie , 1994 single work novel ; Mr Enigmatic Jenny Pausacker , 1994 single work novel
Know the Author : Allan Baillie Agnes Nieuwenhuizen , 1995 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 10 no. 1 1995; (p. 16-18)
y separately published work icon Unsettling Narratives : Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature Clare Bradford , Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press , 2007 Z1415102 2007 single work criticism

'Children's books seek to assist children to understand themselves and their world. Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position child readers as citizens of postcolonial nations, how they represent the colonial past to modern readers, what they propose about race relations, and how they conceptualize systems of power and government.

Clare Bradford focuses on texts produced since 1980 in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand and includes picture books, novels, and films by Indigenous and non-Indigenous publishers and producers. From extensive readings, the author focuses on key works to produce a thorough analysis rather than a survey. Unsettling Narratives opens up an area of scholarship and discussion - the use of postcolonial theories - relatively new to the field of children's literature and demonstrates that many texts recycle the colonial discourses naturalized within mainstream cultures ' (From publisher's catalogue).

Contents: Introduction. Part One: 'When Languages Collide': Resistance and Representation 1. Language, Resistance, and Subjectivity.2. Indigenous Texts and Publishers.3. White Imaginings.4. Telling the Past. Part Two: Place and Postcolonial Significations.5. Space, Time, Nation. 6. Borders, Journeys, and Liminality.7. Politics and Place.8. Allegories of Place and Race.Conclusion
Editor's Introduction: Always Facing the Issues - Preoccupations in Australian Children's Literature John Stephens , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lion and the Unicorn , April vol. 27 no. 2 2003; (p. v-xvii)
An Interview with Allan Baillie about 'Songman' Sophie Masson (interviewer), 1995 single work interview
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 39 no. 1 1995; (p. 5)
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