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y separately published work icon Walg : A Novel of Australia single work   novel  
Is part of Nuclear Cycle 1983 series - author novel (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1983... 1983 Walg : A Novel of Australia
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Notes

  • Epigraph: Sacred young girls of the northern tribes, / the evening sky smeared with menstrual flow / - the blood from a speared kangaroo, / from 'walg', the sacred uterus. - Fertility chant from Arnhem Land
  • Dedication: To Djumala - You shall be born again as a bird, a tree, or a star, as the tribal elders taught us.
  • Author's note: This is a book of fiction; however, prior to the arrival of the white man some 550 tribes and 600 languages existed in Australia - only a handful of which survived.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Dodd, Mead ,       1983 .
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      Extent: xviii, 213p.p.
      Edition info: 1st ed.
      Note/s:
      • Includes glossary.
      • Preface by B. Wongar.
      ISBN: 0396081894
    • South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Macmillan ,       1986 .
      Extent: xviii, 213p.p.
      ISBN: 0333430115
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       George Braziller ,       1990 .
      Extent: xviii, 213p.p.
      ISBN: 0807612413
Alternative title: Der Schoss : Roman aus Australien
Language: German
Notes:
Translated from the original manuscript of the novel which differs from the later English versions.
    • Goettingen,
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      Germany,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Lamuv Verlag ,       1983 .
      Extent: 256p.
      Reprinted: 1995
      Note/s:
      • With an afterword by B. Wongar.
      ISBN: 3921521785
    • Berlin,
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      Germany,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Aufbau ,       1985 .
      Extent: 229p.
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Works about this Work

Censored Creativity : B Wongar's Original Version of Walg Tess Caiter , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 77 2003; (p. 117-121, notes 197-199) This article compares the Australian publication of Walg (1983) and an unabridged version which appeared in German a year earlier, Der Schoss, translated by Annemarie Böll from the original manuscript of the novel. It concludes that whereas the original manuscript and its German translation contained 'colonialist pornography, racialism and racism', appropriated anthropological material and forged a new mythology, the revised Australian version turned out to become quite a different book, a censored version. The author argues that this needs to be considered in a critical assessment of the novel and its author.
B. Wongar - Teaching an Emu How to Fly Marilyn Strelau , 1996 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 10 no. 1 1996; (p. 29-32)
y separately published work icon B. Wongar : Interview Daniel R. Willbanks (interviewer), Z104212 1992 single work interview
In the Tracks of the Reader, In the Tracks of B. Wongar Michael Connor , David Matthews , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 48 no. 4 1989; (p. 713-721)
Untitled Bill Ashcroft , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 283-284)
— Review of Walg : A Novel of Australia B. Wongar , 1983 single work novel ; Karan B. Wongar , 1985 single work novel
The Cast for Natural Man C. Walters , 1983 single work review
— Appears in: Washington Times Magazine , 27 December 1983;
— Review of Walg : A Novel of Australia B. Wongar , 1983 single work novel
A Devastated Land Finds its Voice Roland Robinson , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 28 February 1987;
— Review of Walg : A Novel of Australia B. Wongar , 1983 single work novel
Black Novels of Betrayal and Genocide Dianne Johnson , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10 January 1987; (p. 39)
— Review of Walg : A Novel of Australia B. Wongar , 1983 single work novel ; Karan B. Wongar , 1985 single work novel
On the Move Tom Aitken , 1987 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 4 September 1987; (p. 948)
— Review of Walg : A Novel of Australia B. Wongar , 1983 single work novel
Untitled Bill Ashcroft , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 283-284)
— Review of Walg : A Novel of Australia B. Wongar , 1983 single work novel ; Karan B. Wongar , 1985 single work novel
Censored Creativity : B Wongar's Original Version of Walg Tess Caiter , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 77 2003; (p. 117-121, notes 197-199) This article compares the Australian publication of Walg (1983) and an unabridged version which appeared in German a year earlier, Der Schoss, translated by Annemarie Böll from the original manuscript of the novel. It concludes that whereas the original manuscript and its German translation contained 'colonialist pornography, racialism and racism', appropriated anthropological material and forged a new mythology, the revised Australian version turned out to become quite a different book, a censored version. The author argues that this needs to be considered in a critical assessment of the novel and its author.
y separately published work icon B. Wongar : Interview Daniel R. Willbanks (interviewer), Z104212 1992 single work interview
In the Tracks of the Reader, In the Tracks of B. Wongar Michael Connor , David Matthews , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 48 no. 4 1989; (p. 713-721)
B. Wongar - Teaching an Emu How to Fly Marilyn Strelau , 1996 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 10 no. 1 1996; (p. 29-32)
Culture, Gender and the Author-Function: `Wongar's' "Walg" Sneja Gunew , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southern Review , November vol. 20 no. 3 1987; (p. 261-270) Australian Cultural Studies : A Reader 1993; (p. 3-14)
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