Plains of promise /
"Black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St. Dominic's mission." "With her political awareness raised by work with the city-based Aboriginal Coalition, Mary visits the old mission in the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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St. Lucia, Qld. :
University of Queensland Press,
1997.
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| Series: | UQP Black Australian writers.
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| Summary: | "Black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St. Dominic's mission." "With her political awareness raised by work with the city-based Aboriginal Coalition, Mary visits the old mission in the northern Gulf country, place of her mother's and grandmother's suffering." "Mary's return re-ignites community anxieties, and the Council of Elders again turn to their spirit world."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | 304 p. ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0702229172 9780702229176 |
