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And the Clock Struck Thirteen : The Life and Thoughts of Kaurna Elder Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O'Brien
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Dedication: To Auntie May and Uncle Lewis Adams, for their wisdom and generosity. For Aileen Gale, in admiration.
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[Review Essay] And The Clock Struck Thirteen : The Life and Thoughts of Kaurna Elder Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O'Brien, as Told to Mary-Anne Gale
2009
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— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2009; (p. 136-138)
— Review of And the Clock Struck Thirteen : The Life and Thoughts of Kaurna Elder Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O'Brien 2007 single work biography'‘It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ This is not the first line of Kaurna elder Lewis O’Brien’s story, although it obviously could have been, given his book’s title. Instead, it is the opening sentence of George Orwell’s 1984, a novel concerned with the struggle of the human spirit against totalitarianism. There are some similarities between Orwell’s book and O’Brien’s account of his life and times; it is not drawing too long a bow to claim, for example, that Orwell’s Big Brother and so-called Chief Protectors of Australia’s Aborigines had things in common in terms of power and its misuse, at least as far as Aboriginal people were concerned, when O’Brien was growing up in South Australia.' (Introduction)
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Pick of the Week
2007
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2-3 June 2007; (p. 35)
— Review of And the Clock Struck Thirteen : The Life and Thoughts of Kaurna Elder Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O'Brien 2007 single work biography
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Pick of the Week
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2-3 June 2007; (p. 35)
— Review of And the Clock Struck Thirteen : The Life and Thoughts of Kaurna Elder Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O'Brien 2007 single work biography -
[Review Essay] And The Clock Struck Thirteen : The Life and Thoughts of Kaurna Elder Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O'Brien, as Told to Mary-Anne Gale
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2009; (p. 136-138)
— Review of And the Clock Struck Thirteen : The Life and Thoughts of Kaurna Elder Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O'Brien 2007 single work biography'‘It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ This is not the first line of Kaurna elder Lewis O’Brien’s story, although it obviously could have been, given his book’s title. Instead, it is the opening sentence of George Orwell’s 1984, a novel concerned with the struggle of the human spirit against totalitarianism. There are some similarities between Orwell’s book and O’Brien’s account of his life and times; it is not drawing too long a bow to claim, for example, that Orwell’s Big Brother and so-called Chief Protectors of Australia’s Aborigines had things in common in terms of power and its misuse, at least as far as Aboriginal people were concerned, when O’Brien was growing up in South Australia.' (Introduction)
