Purple Threads
 First edition | |
| Author | Jeanine Leane |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Short story collection, Historical fiction |
| Published | 2011 (University of Queensland Press) |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 157 |
| ISBN | 9780702238956 |
| OCLC | 703219318 |
Purple Threads is a 2011 short story collection by Jeanine Leane. Based on Leane's childhood, the stories are about Sunny, a Wiradjuri girl, growing up in the Gundagai district during the 1960s and 1970s.
Contents
[edit]- Women and Dogs in a Working Man's Paradise;
- God's flock;
- Waiting for Petal;
- Lilies of the Field;
- Coming Home;
- Marching with Hannibal;
- Purple Threads;
- Lying Dogs;
- Land Grab;
- The National Sheep Dip Alliance Party;
- Epilogue - Country Turns.[1]
Reception
[edit]Anita Heiss, writing in Meanjin, " — fell in love with the story of strong capable women living without fear on the land, protecting their home and kin, saving young dying farm animals —while offering readers pearls of wisdom told in their own bush English."[2]
Purple Threads has also been reviewed by mETAphor,[3] Reviews in Australian Studies,[4] and Outskirts.[5]
Awards and nominations
[edit]- 2010 David Unaipon Award winner.[6]
- 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing shortlist.[7]
- 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize shortlist.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Purple Threads. OCLC. OCLC 774285507. Retrieved 28 August 2021 – via worldcat.org.
- ^ "Australia in Three Books". Meanjin. 75 (2). Melbourne University Publishing. 15 June 2016. ISSN 0025-6293. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ Margaret Hallahan; Mel Dixon; Gersha Shteyman (June 2012). "Book Reviews (subscription required)". METAphor (2). English Teachers' Association of New South Wales: 55–63. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ "Purple Threads by Jeanine Leane and Mazin Grace by Dylan Coleman". Reviews in Australian Studies. 8 (2). Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies. 3 July 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ Helena Kadmos (November 2014). "Given, received, withheld: Purple Threads by Jeanine Leane, the short story cycle and the fragmentary nature of knowing". Outskirts. 31. University of Western Australia. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
The stories give voice to these women's knowledge about the land, about what they have learnt as colonised people surviving in a white patriarchal society, and about coping with the ensuing difficulties that inevitably arise in such circumstances.
- ^ "Australian Literary Awards: David Unaipon". guides.lib.uw.edu. University of Washington Libraries. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ Jo Case (5 September 2012). "Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing: Winner and Shortlist Announced". wheelercentre.com. The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ Gia Metherell (26 April 2012). "Canberra writer on C'wealth Prize shortlist". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 28 August 2021.