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Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 Over My Tracks
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    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1993 .

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Man, Animal, Other : The Intersections of Racism, Speciesism and Problematic Recognition within Indigenous Australia Elena Wewer , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: NEW : Emerging Scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies , vol. 2-3 no. 1 2016-2017;

'This paper explores the parallels between racism and speciesism, to argue that the colonial ‘othering’ and subjugation of Indigenous Australians reflects the domestication of farmed animals.' (Publication abstract)

A Ticket to Nowhere : Coming-of-Age in Two Twentieth-Century Indigenous Australian Memoirs Gay Breyley , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing 2010; (p. 187-206)
The author looks at the autobiographical writings of two Aboriginal women with specific focus on their adolescent memories. Particular attention is given to the way each narrator increases her level of personal agency in adolescence, making decisions that condition their respective futures.
Fearing the Protector, Fearing the Protected : Indigenous and 'National' Fears in Twentieth-century Australia Gay Breyley , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 23 no. 1 2009; (p. 43-48)

'This essay examines the effects of early to mid twentieth-century government policies of 'protection' and assimilation on indigenous Australian lives. It focuses on childhood fears as recounted by Baarkanji memoirist Evelyn Crawford in her transcribed oral history, Over My Tracks, and on 'national' fears as represented in public spheres.'

'Grey Angels' : Ancestral Voices in Displaced Descendants' Memoirs Gay Breyley , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Regenerative Spirit : Volume 2 : (Un)settling, (Dis)locations, (Post-)colonial, (Re)presentations - Australian Post-Colonial Reflections 2004; (p. 251-263)
In the work of Lily Brett, and Evelyn Crawford, Breyley sees writers from two different diasporas (Jewish and Baarkanji), and writing in two different forms, but each imagining the songs and languages of her ancestors, both known and unknown, and their resonance in the author's own worlds.
Imagined Ancestral Communities of Displaced Australian Daughters: Evelyn Crawford's Over My Tracks and Lily Brett's After the War and Unintended Consequences Gay Breyley , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Prose Studies , December vol. 26 no. 1-2 2003; (p. 17-42) Women's Life Writing and Imagined Communities 2005; (p. 17-42)
"My Kind of People" : "Over My Tracks" J. M. Arthur , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 18 no. 1, 2 1994; (p. 204-206)

— Review of My Kind of People : Achievement, Identity and Aboriginality Wayne Coolwell , 1993 anthology life story ; Over My Tracks 1993 single work autobiography
Compelling Tales of A Life Spent Out Back of Bourke 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 11 August no. 57 1993; (p. 54)

— Review of Over My Tracks 1993 single work autobiography
'Grey Angels' : Ancestral Voices in Displaced Descendants' Memoirs Gay Breyley , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Regenerative Spirit : Volume 2 : (Un)settling, (Dis)locations, (Post-)colonial, (Re)presentations - Australian Post-Colonial Reflections 2004; (p. 251-263)
In the work of Lily Brett, and Evelyn Crawford, Breyley sees writers from two different diasporas (Jewish and Baarkanji), and writing in two different forms, but each imagining the songs and languages of her ancestors, both known and unknown, and their resonance in the author's own worlds.
Imagined Ancestral Communities of Displaced Australian Daughters: Evelyn Crawford's Over My Tracks and Lily Brett's After the War and Unintended Consequences Gay Breyley , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Prose Studies , December vol. 26 no. 1-2 2003; (p. 17-42) Women's Life Writing and Imagined Communities 2005; (p. 17-42)
More Than a Reader and Less Than a Critic : Literary Authority and Women's Book-Discussion Groups Frances Devlin-Glass , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Women's Studies International Forum , vol. 24 no. 5 2001; (p. 571-585)
'The phenomenon of women reading books collaboratively is largely invisible, and certainly under-researched. This study, based on extensive circulation figures and on a small sample of members of four Council of Adult Education reading groups in metropolitan Melbourne, argues that such groups have a reading repertoire which is seriously middlebrow, far removed from the "wish-fulfillment" or "lazy reader" stereotypes purveyed by some who would scorn such groups. The study finds that such groups are sensitively served by the institution which hosts them. While such groups do not question the aesthetic assumptions that underlie their practice, they are combative with some manifestations of the literary establishment. Their powerful preferences for contemporary Australian women's fiction and their participation in global debates via identity politics suggests they warrant closer examination, both within Australian culture, and to find out if such groups have counterparts in other cultures.' -- Publication abstract.
Fearing the Protector, Fearing the Protected : Indigenous and 'National' Fears in Twentieth-century Australia Gay Breyley , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 23 no. 1 2009; (p. 43-48)

'This essay examines the effects of early to mid twentieth-century government policies of 'protection' and assimilation on indigenous Australian lives. It focuses on childhood fears as recounted by Baarkanji memoirist Evelyn Crawford in her transcribed oral history, Over My Tracks, and on 'national' fears as represented in public spheres.'

A Ticket to Nowhere : Coming-of-Age in Two Twentieth-Century Indigenous Australian Memoirs Gay Breyley , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing 2010; (p. 187-206)
The author looks at the autobiographical writings of two Aboriginal women with specific focus on their adolescent memories. Particular attention is given to the way each narrator increases her level of personal agency in adolescence, making decisions that condition their respective futures.
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  • Bourke, Bourke - Brewarrina area, Far West NSW, New South Wales,
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