A most peculiar act : a novel
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A most peculiar act : a novel
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The work A most peculiar act : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- A most peculiar act : a novel
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Marie Munkara
- Subject
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Darwin (N.T.) -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Aboriginal Australian literature
- White Australia policy -- Fiction
- Northern Territory.
- Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The story follows the trials and tribulations of Sugar, a 16 year-old Aboriginal fringe-camp dweller. Set in Darwin during the Japanese bombing raids, we meet characters such as: Horatio Humphris (Horrid Hump), Chief Protector of Aborigines, teetotaller and 42 year old virgin; Ralphie Brown, who has the unedifying honour of being the only public servant to ever be sacked; Drew Hepplewaite, redneck racist and female patrol officer armed with balls of steel; and the Administrator's wife, Penelope, who has a fetish for anything oriental. Then there's Sugar's mate Nig Nog, who teaches Sugar a few useful tricks of the "trade" while they do time at the Half-Caste Compound; Fuel Drum's suspicious death at the hands of his six-month-old granddaughter, Honey; and Horseshoe with his wayward and slutty wife, Brumby. With the Aboriginal Ordinances Act and the 'White Australia' policy set as a backdrop, Sugar's resistance to assimilation and the attempts by Horrid Hump and his henchmen to enforce it becomes a protracted battle that ends at the Christmas party from Hell. Interspersed with illicit affairs, stolen children, leprosy and "fucking foreigners," this story sees Sugar and her oppressors finally meet on a level playing field that none of them ever expected - a Japanese bombing raid
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- Illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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