Balanda. My Year In Arnhem Land

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 224 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This place used to be called Mang djang the place where the Dreaming changed shape. And then the Balandas arrived, pale people from different places with tongues that couldnt make the right sounds, and these words became Maningrida. Now it is the place where the Dreaming mutates, might wither and die, might implode or explode or combust. This is unlike anywhere else Ive ever been. Mary Ellen Jordan left her Melbourne city life to spend fourteen months in Maningrida, a coastal community in Arnhem Land. She made the journey expecting to work alongside the local Aboriginal people, with good intentions and thinking shed be of some use. But nothing, it turned out, would be that simple. Staring across the sharp social and cultural divide between the two races, Jordan would struggle to learn what it was to be a Balanda in Maningrida a place that would challenge her perceptions of race, culture, political correctness, art, language, and whiteness. This is a moving story told with both boldness and a lightness of touch by a talented new voice in Australian writing.

ISBN: 9781741142808