From: "Elizabeth DeLoughrey" <emd23-AT-cornell.edu>
Subject: RE: aboriginal australian literature
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:00:55 -0500


Helen
I agree w/Ide that P. Grace is a wonderful writer but she's from NZ, not
Australia & the histories are very different (although her novel "Cousins"
is perhaps the closest rendering of a 'lost generation' in a Maori context).
Probably one of the most powerful films out of Australia about the lost
generation is "Night Cries"--details on the film are below (summary is
misleading). Liz

Night cries [videorecording] : a rural tragedy / director/writer, Tracey
Moffatt ; producer, Penny McDonald.
Published: New York, NY : Women Make Movies, 1990, c1989.
Description: 1 videocassette (17 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
  Participants: Marcia Langton, Agnes Hardwick, Jimmy Little, Alkira
Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gentle.
Summary: An older daughter resents the responsibility of caring for her aged
mother.


>Hi Helen,

Patricia Grace _Potiki_ (1995) and _Baby No-Eyes_ (1998) (but all of her
books
are wonderful) Sally Morgan's _My Place_ is a little older but also powerful
autobiography. I'm not sure what she's written more recently.




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