Dark Secrets: After Dreaming (AD) 1887-1961

by Jeanine Leane

This collection of poems tells the story of women's experiences from After Dreaming (AD), 1887 to 1961. Inspired by anecdotal and family stories from Wiradjuri women it moves from campfire to captivity to confinement and through colonialism

Genres: Poetry, Indigenous

32 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2010

About the author

Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri woman from south-west New South Wales. A Doctorate in literature and Aboriginal representation from the University of Technology, Sydney, followed a long teaching career at secondary and tertiary level. Formerly an Indigenous Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, she currently holds a post-doctoral fellowship at ANU. Jeanine's unpublished manuscript Purple Threads won the David Unaipon Award at the 2010 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, and, once published, was shortlisted for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize. Jeanine is the recipient of an Australian Research Council grant which will produce a scholarly monograph called Reading the Nation: A critical study of Aboriginal/Settler representation in the contemporary Australian literary landscape.

Reviews

[Aly]

Beautiful poems full of rage and grief.

[Gemma Mahadeo]

3.5 / 5