Always will be / Mykaela Saunders.
Language: E12 Publication details: St Lucia, Qld : University of Queensland Press, 2024.Description: 310 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780702266386 (paperback)
- Literature and stories - Fiction
- Literature and stories - Authors - Fiction
- Bundjalung language E12
- Indigenous Collection
- Short stories
- Short stories, Australian -- 21st century
- Australian fiction -- Aboriginal Australian authors
- Sovereignty -- Fiction
- Speculative fiction, Australian -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
- Torres Strait Islanders -- Fiction
- Tweed Heads map area (NSW N Coast SH56-03)
- Tweed River (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- A823.4 23
- PR9614.5.A88 A49 2024
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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New book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Short stories | SAU | Available | 073234 |
Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this item may contain names, recordings, images, photographs, illustrations and text of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive.
An outstanding and timely collection of speculative fiction imagining futures where Indigenous sovereignty is fully reasserted. In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question- what might country, community and culture look like in the Tweed if Gooris reasserted their sovereignty? Each of the stories in Always Will Be is set in its own future version of the Tweed. In one, a group of girls plot their escape from a home they have no memory of entering. In another, two men make a final visit to the country they love as they contemplate a new life in a faraway place. Saunders imagines different scenarios for how the local Goori community might reassert sovereignty - reclaiming country, exerting full self-determination, or incorporating non-Indigenous people into the social fabric - while practising creative, ancestrally approved ways of living with changing climates.