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Title
Dreamers

Author
Jack Davis

format
Paperback / softback

Publisher
Currency Press

Language
English

UK Publication Date
19960321

Description

With humane irony, Jack Davis gives a painful insight into the process of colonisation and the transformation of his people. The Dreamers is the story of a country-town family and old Uncle Worru, who in his dying days, recedes from urban hopelessness to the life and language of the Nyoongah spirit in him, which has survived 'civilisation'.

JACK DAVIS (1917-2000) was born in Perth and brought up at Yarloop and the Moore River Native Settlement. He first began to learn the language and culture of his people, the Nyoongarah of the south-west of Western Australia, while living on the Brookton Aboriginal Reserve. He later worked as a stockman in the north-west which brought him into contact with tribal society. He became an activist on behalf of his people and from 1967-71 was director of the Aboriginal Centre in Perth. In 1971 he became the first chairman of the Aboriginal Lands Trust in WA and from 1972-77 was managing editor of the Aboriginal Publications Foundation. Davis' first full-length play Kullark, a documentary on the history of Aborigines in WA, was first produced in 1979. Other plays published by Currency include No Sugar, The Dreamers, Barungin: Smell the Wind, In Our Town and for younger audiences, Honey Spot and Moorli and the Leprechaun. For services to his people he received the British Empire Medal in 1977 and in 1985 became a member of the Order of Australia. He has received the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, an Hon. D.Litt. from Murdoch University and been elected Citizen of the Year in WA. In 1989 Davis was awarded one of the first Creative Fellowships given by the Federal Government to established artists in recognition of their contribution to Australian culture.

Type
BOOK

Keyword Index
Nyunga (Australian people) - Drama.

Number of Pages
84

Country of Publication
Australia

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