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Cartwarra or what? : selected poems and short stories

Author :  Alf Taylor

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Country
Australia
Publisher
Magabala Books
ISBN 9781922613912
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2022
Bib. Info xi, 155 pages 21 cm
Categories PR - English literature
Product Weight 215 gms.
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Cartwarra or what? Selected poems and stories is a compendium of Alf's works that span several literary genres, and is representative of an older generation of Blak writers who were survivors of the Stolen Generations. His poetry and short stories have been anthologised and published in various collections, spanning a career of over thirty years. This collection delicately weaves together his past works for a new generation, in which not much has changed.This collection of stories and poems is, at best, raw, intermittently melodramatic, but always full of colourful, engaging characters imbued with playful humour and ironic storytelling. Alf seamlessly captures human frailty, in all its contradictions, and seizes upon ironies that coexist, merge and jostle for light and space in everyday Noongar life. Alf's storytelling exposes the uncomfortable truths of alcoholism, separation from family, community and land, grief and the profound loss of identity on the everyday life of his Aboriginal characters. Alf's stories and poems offer a vivid picture of the care, kindness and gentleness of Aboriginal families and communities and their enduring strength, resourcefulness and power.

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