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Australian Legendary Tales

Australian Legendary Tales

Parker, K. Langloh
Lang, Andrew

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1461175127
ISBN13: 9781461175124
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 11 2011
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.18 Width: 7.99 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
This is still one of the best available collections of Australian Aboriginal folklore. It was written for a popular audience, but the stories are retold with integrity, and not filtered, as was the case with similar books from this period. That said, the style of this book reflects Victorian sentimentality and, an occasional tinge of racism that may not sit well with some modern readers. K. Langloh Parker (the K. stands for 'Katie') [1856-1940] lived in the Australian outback most of her life, close to the Eulayhi people. The texts, with their sentient animals and mythic transformations, have a sonambulistic and chaotic narrative that mark them as authentic dreamtime lore. The mere fact that she cared to write down these stories places her far ahead of her contemporaries, who barely regarded native Australians as human. This was the first book Parker wrote. She write four books, three of native folklore and one an ethnography of the Eulayhi tribe. Parker has some odd connections with modern popular culture. She was rescued from drowning by an aborigine at an early age. This incident was portrayed in the film 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', directed by Peter Weir. The song They Call the Wind Mariah was based on a story from this book. (And the pop singer Mariah Cary was reputedly named after this song).--J.B. Hare

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