Homecoming

WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL INDIGENOUS

“Homecoming pieces together fragments of stories about four generations of Noongar women and explores how they navigated the changing landscapes of colonisation, protectionism, and assimilation to hold their families together. This seminal collection of poetry, prose and historical colonial archives, tells First Nations truths of unending love for children—those that were present, those taken, those hidden and those that ultimately stood in the light. Homecoming speaks to the intergenerational dialogue about Country, kin and culture. This elegant and extraordinary form of restorative story work amplifies Aboriginal women’s voices, and enables four generations of women to speak for themselves. This sublime debut highlights the tenacity of family as well as First Nation’s agency to resist, survive and renew. Elfie Shiosaki has restored humanity and power to her family in this beautifully articulated collection and has given voice to those silenced by our brutal past.”

• x, 143 pages : illustrations, facsimile ; 20 cm #131223 First Edition
• Australian poetry — Aboriginal Australian authors
• Women, Aboriginal Australian — Western Australia — Biography
• Noongar (Australian people) — History
• Noongar (Australian people) — Biography
• Noongar / Nyungar / Nyungah people (W41) (WA SI50)
• History – Genealogy and family history
• History – Biographies – Indigenous
• Literature and stories – Story telling and story tellers
• Australian
• Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection*Our grandmothers’ stories teach us about Aboriginal women’s ways of being in our many worlds. Some of the stories in this collection are held in spoken histories, others in archival material, recontextualised with living katitjin. Some are held in my imagination. They are fragments of the many stars in my grandmothers’ constellations. I track my grandmothers’ stars to find my bidi home.Homecoming pieces together fragments of stories about four generations of Noongar women and explores how they navigated the changing landscapes of colonisation, protectionism, and assimilation to hold their families together.This seminal collection of poetry, prose and historical colonial archives, tells First Nations truths of unending love for children those that were present, those taken, those hidden and those that ultimately stood in the light.Homecoming speaks to the intergenerational dialogue about Country, kin and culture. This elegant and extraordinary form of restorative story work amplifies Aboriginal women’s voices, and enables four generations of women to speak for themselves. This sublime debut highlights the tenacity of family as well as First Nation’s agency to resist, survive and renew.