Double Native: A Moving Memoir About Living Across Two Cultures - Couverture souple

Wirrer-George Oochunyung, Fiona

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0702239178 ISBN 13 : 9780702239175

Editeur : University of Queensland Pr (Australia), 2012

Synopsis

Growing up on the west coast of Queensland's Cape York Peninsula in the 1970s and 1980s, Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung had an idyllic traditional life. At the age of 16, she moved to Sydney to attend the NAISDA Dance College, where she studied with the legendary Page brothers. As a young woman, she carves out a fragile relationship with her absent father, inspiring her to better understand her Austrian ancestry and how it meshes with her Indigenous identity. The model of a modern woman, the author shares the joys and challenges that come with growing up in a divided community in this powerful and candid memoir and offers a rare insight into the burgeoning years of the contemporary Indigenous dance movement.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung is currently working with Indigenous girls at Clayfield College. She is the author of Whispers of This Wik Woman and the recipient of the David Unaipon Award. She is also the author of two works for the stage, A Bastard's Tale and Blak Velvet.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0702239178
• ISBN 13: 9780702239175
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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