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Wildcat Screaming
Wildcat is out of prison, but not for long. In this sequel to Wild Cat Falling, Mudrooroo takes us inside the life of the urban Aboriginal. Set in the boom years of Perth bankers and entrepreneurs, we see the same wheeling and dealing from inside Fremantle prison. Wildcat has to survive, and understand the new order, set by the Chief Warder and an ex-Indian Army officer. Soon he too is part of their great creation, The Panopticon Prison Reform Society.
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First published January 1, 1992
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May 28, 2023
This was an interesting book written by an Aboriginal Australian author about the difficulties prevalent in Australia throughout the 1950s/1960s. This book deals with the ideas around belonging and self-identity, with a specific focus on Indigenous Australian People's living amongst the Non-Indigenous Australian People. This isn't a text that I would read again, however, it provided me with some insights from a group that I'm not a member of from a time period I was never a part of.
March 21, 2013
This novel by an aboriginal writer is about an aboriginal male struggling to live in the Australian society of the 60's. This book was written almost 30 years after Wild Cat Falling (by the same author) that was I believe the first novel by an aboriginal person.
It is only apt that I finished this book on the train home from an exam in "Contemporary Schools of Literary Criticism" where by chance(or ill fate) the main question was about post-colonial literary criticism.
While not expecting a mark surpassing 80, due to notorious study practices (stemming from an inherent laziness and weak character) combined with an extremely short-term memory, I did learn some new things in this course, and thus gained a much better perspective and understanding of how to read this text as well as why it was written in first tense and using unique expressions.
I have also noticed, owing to this course, that the mixed, yet getting stabilized, identity formed by the book's speaker at the end, seems very much in line with Homi K. Bhabha's concept of hybridisation.
It is not the most interesting book I have ever read and certainly not the best written at that. However, I do think it gives an interesting perspective and does it in a unique way that deserves modest acclaim (i.e. 3 stars).
It is only apt that I finished this book on the train home from an exam in "Contemporary Schools of Literary Criticism" where by chance(or ill fate) the main question was about post-colonial literary criticism.
While not expecting a mark surpassing 80, due to notorious study practices (stemming from an inherent laziness and weak character) combined with an extremely short-term memory, I did learn some new things in this course, and thus gained a much better perspective and understanding of how to read this text as well as why it was written in first tense and using unique expressions.
I have also noticed, owing to this course, that the mixed, yet getting stabilized, identity formed by the book's speaker at the end, seems very much in line with Homi K. Bhabha's concept of hybridisation.
It is not the most interesting book I have ever read and certainly not the best written at that. However, I do think it gives an interesting perspective and does it in a unique way that deserves modest acclaim (i.e. 3 stars).
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