Summary
‘You’ve got one hand that’s gushing blood and in the other hand you’re holding the knife. You actually are the full story. Both sides.’
A great-great grandmother sold as a ‘wife’ to a white sealer. Her granddaughter, who buried her identity to survive the settler-colony. A young fair-skinned Palawa man, their descendant, seeking truths about their shared past. Bound by blood and borne by the winds of the Bass Strait Islands, they meet at the Island of the Dead. White history has swall…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760628550 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760628557 |
| Author: | Dylan Van Den Berg |
| Publisher: | Currency Press Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | Currency Press Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 62 |
| Release Date: | 20 November 2023 |
| Weight: | 83g |
| Dimensions: | 5mm x 137mm x 210mm |
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Dylan Van Den Berg
Dylan is a playwright and dramaturg. A Palawa person from the northeast of lutruwita/Tasmania, Dylan’s work explores Black identity by pivoting narratives that are already part of our national consciousness to embolden Indigenous perspectives. He tells stories where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have agency over their futures and draws on both Western and First Nations theatrical traditions. In 2021, his play Milk premiered at The Street Theatre and won the NSW Premiers Award Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting. The play was described as “a new and powerful development in Australian First Peoples’ theatre” (Canberra Critics’ Circle). Milk is published by Currency Press.
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