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Sto caricando le informazioni... Maralinga's Long Shadowdi Christobel Mattingley
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Grandfather and Grandmother telling lots of stories. They had to live at Yalata. Their home was bombed. That was their home where the bomb went off. They thought it was mamu tjuta, evil spirits, coming. Everyone was frightened, thinking about people back in the bush. Didn't know what bomb was. Later told it was poison. Parents and grandparents really wanted to go home, used to talk all the time to get their land back.'..Yvonne Edwards was just six years old when the first bombs of the nuclear tests at Maralinga were detonated in 1956. The tests continued until 1963 and their consequences profoundly affected her family and community...This powerful book, by award-winning author Christobel Mattingley, honours Yvonne Edwards' legacy as a highly respected artist and community elder. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This week is Indigenous Literature Week, and I’ve always wanted it to be about books authored by Indigenous people. But in this instance, Yvonne Edwards died unexpectedly just as – after a long and busy life as an artist and activist – she had at last begun working with author Christobel Mattingley on writing her story. Mattingley has therefore constructed Yvonne’s story from interviews and conversations with Yvonne, an interview on ABC Radio’s Message Stick and some input from Yvonne’s family and friends. It is profusely illustrated with beautiful art works by Yvonne and there are some photographs as well.
While the artworks tell the vivid story of Yvonne’s people, the Anangu people of what is now known as Maralinga, the book is written in the third person in English that is simple and direct, and includes some use of Pitjantjatjara. It does not purport to be Yvonne’s own voice but it does appear to be written entirely from her perspective. Although there is a comprehensive author’s note at the back of the book which explains its genesis and her method, still, it’s not possible to glean from any signals in the text whether this perspective or parts of it have been inferred by the author or drawn directly from Mattingley’s interviews and conversations. The reader has no way of telling which of the opinions expressed are the sympathetic opinions of the author or the recorded opinions of the subject. The tone is always respectful of the subject and the draft was approved by members of Yvonne’s family. So it seems to me that the book sits awkwardly in a space between a rather naïve way of writing biography written for the children’s or YA market, and a genuine attempt to reproduce the story that Yvonne would herself have told, in words she would have used, and telling a story that otherwise might not have been told.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2017/07/06/maralingas-long-shadow-yvonnes-story-by-chri... (