Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription For Enduring The Ending Of The World (SIGNED)
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Clean text.
A landmark of Australian Indigenous literature, Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World chronicles the devastating colonization of Tasmania through the eyes of Wooreddy, a Bruny Island Aboriginal man who witnesses the systematic destruction of his people and culture at the hands of British settlers. Written with a tone that is both elegiac and unflinching, the novel presents the catastrophic events of the early nineteenth century not as a footnote to colonial history, but as a profound human tragedy seen entirely from an Indigenous perspective. Colin Johnson — writing under his birth name before later adopting the name Mudrooroo — grounds the narrative in Aboriginal spiritual belief, illustrating how Wooreddy interprets the arrival of the num, or white ghosts, as a supernatural apocalypse foretold by his cosmology. The result is a work of searing moral clarity that argues powerfully for the recognition of Aboriginal sovereignty, resilience, and cultural memory, standing as one of the most important and challenging novels to emerge from Australia in the twentieth century.
Description
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Clean text.
A landmark of Australian Indigenous literature, Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World chronicles the devastating colonization of Tasmania through the eyes of Wooreddy, a Bruny Island Aboriginal man who witnesses the systematic destruction of his people and culture at the hands of British settlers. Written with a tone that is both elegiac and unflinching, the novel presents the catastrophic events of the early nineteenth century not as a footnote to colonial history, but as a profound human tragedy seen entirely from an Indigenous perspective. Colin Johnson — writing under his birth name before later adopting the name Mudrooroo — grounds the narrative in Aboriginal spiritual belief, illustrating how Wooreddy interprets the arrival of the num, or white ghosts, as a supernatural apocalypse foretold by his cosmology. The result is a work of searing moral clarity that argues powerfully for the recognition of Aboriginal sovereignty, resilience, and cultural memory, standing as one of the most important and challenging novels to emerge from Australia in the twentieth century.
