Mazin Grace
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Mazin Grace
Mazin Grace
Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Claire G Coleman, Mazin' Grace is a moving reimagining of a mother's girlhood, told by her daughter.
Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Claire G Coleman, Mazin' Grace is a moving reimagining of a mother's girlhood, told by her daughter.
Growing up on the Mission isn't easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn't know what to say. Papa Neddy says her dad is the Lord God in Heaven, but that doesn't help when the Mission kids call her a bastard. As Grace slowly pieces together clues that might lead to answers, she struggles to find a place in a community that rejects her for reasons she doesn't understand.
In Mazin' Grace, Dylan Coleman fictionalises her mother's childhood at the Koonibba Lutheran Mission in South Australia in the 1940s and '50s. Woven through the narrative are the powerful, rhythmic sounds of Aboriginal English and Kokatha language. Mazin' Grace is the inspirational story of a feisty girl who refuses to be told who she is, determined to uncover the truth for herself.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780702268557
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 June 2024
Country: Australia
Imprint: University of Queensland Press
Edition: 2nd ed.
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 272g
Pages: 288
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About the Author
Dylan Coleman is a Kokatha Aboriginal-Greek woman from the far west coast of South Australia. She is the award-winning author of Mazin Grace and has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Adelaide, where she teaches Indigenous health at Yaitya Purruna Indigenous Health Unit. Mazin Grace won the David Unaipon Award in 2011, and was longlisted for the Stella Prize in 2013, and shortlisted for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize. Dylan lives in Adelaide with her son and they enjoy training together in Brazilian jujitsu. She has worked for over twenty years across Aboriginal education, health, land rights, and the arts, with a focus on Aboriginal community engagement and social justice.
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