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'What do the artistic works of acclaimed author Tim Winton and eminent Ngarinyin lawman Bungal (David) Mowaljarlai have in common?
'According to Hannah Rachel Bell they both reflect sacred relationship with the natural world, the biological imperative of a male rite of passage, an emergent urban tribalism, and the fundamental role of story in the transmission of cultural knowledge. In Bell's four decade friendship with Mowaljarlai, she had to confront the cultural assumptions that sculpted her way of seeing. The journey was life-changing.
'When she returned to teaching in 2001 Tim Winton's novels featured in the curriculum. She recognised an eerie familiarity and thought Winton must have been influenced by traditional elders to express such an 'indigenous' perspective. She wrote to him. This resulted in 4 years of correspondence and an excavation of converging world views - exposed through personal memoir, letters, paintings and conversations and culminating in Storymen.' (From the publisher's website.)
Notes
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Dedication: For Joan Butun. I have never forgotten your dedication to the Ngarinyin kids.
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Includes some re-tellings of Ngarinyin / Ungarinyin stories (as told by Mowalijarlia) from recorded transcripts.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Books
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 11 September 2010; (p. 20)
— Review of The Body in the Clouds 2010 single work novel ; Storymen 2009 single work life story -
Review
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 9 - 10 January 2010; (p. 21)
— Review of Storymen 2009 single work life story -
Friends in Hope
2009
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , December vol. 4 no. 11 2009; (p. 26) -
Books
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 7 November 2009; (p. 26)
— Review of What Doesn't Kill You 2009 single work novel ; Storymen 2009 single work life story ; The Nature of Ice 2009 single work novel ; On the Run 2009 single work novel
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Books
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 7 November 2009; (p. 26)
— Review of What Doesn't Kill You 2009 single work novel ; Storymen 2009 single work life story ; The Nature of Ice 2009 single work novel ; On the Run 2009 single work novel -
Review
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 9 - 10 January 2010; (p. 21)
— Review of Storymen 2009 single work life story -
Books
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 11 September 2010; (p. 20)
— Review of The Body in the Clouds 2010 single work novel ; Storymen 2009 single work life story -
Friends in Hope
2009
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , December vol. 4 no. 11 2009; (p. 26)
- Cloudstreet 1991 single work novel
- Breath 2008 single work novel
- Land's Edge 1993 single work autobiography
- An Open Swimmer 1982 single work novel
- That Eye, the Sky 1986 single work novel
- Dirt Music 2001 single work novel
- Natural environment
- Masculinity
- Story telling
- Place & identity
- Aboriginal Ngarinyin people
- Aboriginal relationship with the land
- Indigenous culture & law
- Aboriginal religion & stories
- Feminism
- Aboriginal land rights & native title
- Aboriginal kinship
- Aboriginal contact history
- Aboriginal Pre-Contact History
- Aboriginal-White relations
- Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,