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Shortlisted for the SPN Book of the Year Award 2020
Nganajungu Yagu is dedicated to Papertalk Green's 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 and 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 us of the nearly lost art of letter writing but also 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 the 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 Mother's 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.' — Charmaine Papertalk Green
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ISBN: 9780648511601
Publisher: Cordite Publishing Inc.
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 June 2019
Country: Australia
Imprint: Cordite Publishing Inc.
Contributors:
- Introduction by Anita Heiss
Audience: General / adult
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Weight: 170g
Pages: 86
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About the Author
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.
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