Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green (English) Paperback Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green, Anita Heiss *Shortlisted for the SPN Book of the Year Award 2020* FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description *Shortlisted for the SPN Book of the Year Award 2020*Nganajungu Yagu is dedicated to Papertalk Greens mother, and is built around selected correspondence between Yagu and Daughter. It gently reminds us of the sacrifices made by our matriarchs over time. Each letter and response provide not only a mark of existence for the writer, but a medium for mother / daughter to connect while at a distance. The love and respect penned here will inspire readers to think about the ways we should engage people we love through words. This revival of letters not only reminds me of the nearly lost art of letterwriting, but the impact one has on its receiver. Forty years ago, letters, words and feelings flowed between a teenage daughter and her mother. Letters written by that teenage daughter - me - handed around family back home, disappeared. Yet letters from that mother to her teenage daughter - me remained protected in my red life-journey suitcase. I carried them across time and landscapes as a mother would carry her baby in a thaga.In 1978 - 79, I was living in an Aboriginal girls hostel in the Bentley suburb of Perth, attending senior high school. Mum and I sent handwritten letters to each other. I was a small-town teenager stepping outside of all things I had ever known. Mum remained in the only world she had ever known.Nganajungu Yagu was inspired by Mothers letters, her life and the love she instilled in me for my people and my culture. A substantial part of that culture is language, and I missed out on so much language interaction having moved away. I talk with my ancestors language Badimaya and Wajarri to honour ancestors, language centres, language workers and those Yamaji who have been and remain generous in passing on cultural knowledge. - Charmain Papertalk Green Author Biography Charmaine Papertalk Green is from the Wajarri, Badimaya and Southern Yamaji peoples of Mid West Western Australia. She has lived and worked in rural Western Australia (Mid West and Pilbara) most of her life, and within the Aboriginal sector industry as a community agitator, artist/poet, community development practitioner and social sciences researcher. Her poetry has appeared in Antipodes, Artlink Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review and The Lifted Brow, as well as in the anthologies The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry, Inside Black Australia: An Anthology of Aboriginal Poetry, Ora Nui: A Collection of Maori and Aboriginal Literature, The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets and Those Who Remain Will Always Remember: An Anthology of Aboriginal Writing. She lives in Geraldton, Western Australia. Details ISBN064851160X Author Anita Heiss Pages 86 Publisher Cordite Publishing Inc. Year 2019 ISBN-10 064851160X ISBN-13 9780648511601 Format Paperback Publication Date 2019-06-01 Imprint Cordite Publishing Inc. Country of Publication Australia Language English NZ Release Date 2019-06-01 Audience General AU Release Date 2019-05-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:129560228;

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