| Record Number |
21918 |
| ISBN |
9781760687397 |
| 1760687391 |
| Item Number |
21063537 |
| Location |
305.89 DAN |
| Author |
Dank, Debra, (author). |
| Title |
We come with this place / Debra Dank. |
| Published |
London : Echo Publishing, 2022. |
| ©2022. |
| Collation |
xviii, 251 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Content types |
text |
| Carrier type |
volume |
| General Note |
"First Nations peoples are advised that this book contains names of deceased people, and content that may be considered culturally sensitive." |
| Summary Note |
"We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in time and place to tell an unforgettable story of country and people. There is great pain in these pages, and anger at injustice, but also great love, in marriage and in family, and for the land. Dank faces head on the ingrained racism, born of brutal practice and harsh legislation, that lies always under the skin of Australia, the racism that calls a little Aboriginal girl names and beats and rapes and disenfranchises the generations before hers. She describes sudden terrible violence, between races and sometimes at home. But overwhelmingly this is a book about strong, beloved parents and grandparents, guiding and teaching their children and grandchildren what country means, about joyful gatherings and the pleasures of eating food provided by the place that nourishes them, both spiritually and physically. Dank calibrates human emotions with honesty and insight, and there is plenty of dry, down-to-earth humour. You can feel and smell and see the puffs of dust under moving feet, the ever-present burning heat, the bright exuberance of a night-time campfire, the emerald flash of a flock of budgerigars, the journeying wind, the harshness of a station shanty, the welcome scent of fresh water. We Come with This Place is deeply personal, a profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs, but it is much more than that. Here is Australia as it has been for countless generations, land and people in effortless balance, and Australia as it became, but also Australia as it could and should be." -- Back cover. |
| Target Audience |
General. |
| Language Note |
Text primarily in English. Includes some Garrwa, Gudanji, Kalkadoon, Wambaya and Yanyuwa languages.. |
| Awards Note |
NSW Premier's Literary Award - UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing (AUS) (Shortlist - 2023) |
| NSW Premier's Literary Award - Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction (AUS) (Shortlist - 2023) |
| NSW Premier's Literary Award - Indigenous Writer's Prize (AUS) (Shortlist - 2023) |
| The Stella Prize (AUS) (Shortlist - 2023) |
| Personal Name |
Dank, Debra |
| Subject |
Garrwa language N155 |
| Gudanji language C26 |
| Kalkatungu / Kalkadoon language G13 |
| Wambaya language C19 |
| Yanyuwa language N153 |
| Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Social life and customs |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Social conditions |
| Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity |
| Race discrimination -- Australia |
| Social conflict -- Australia |
| Biography: general |
| Families -- Australia -- Biography |
| Aboriginal Australians -- History |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions |
| Racism -- Australia |
| Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography |
