Katherine Johnson - Paris Savages
Wed, 09 Oct
|Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead
A story of love, bravery, culture, and the fight against injustice, Paris Savages brings a little-known part of Badtjala and Australian history to blazing life, from award-winning novelist Katherine Johnson. Katherine is in-conversation with Evelyn Araluen.
Time & Location
09 Oct 2019, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead, 265 King Street, Newtown NSW, Australia
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About the Book
"This story has its genesis in fact, when three Fraser Island people were taken to Germany in 1882–83. The sole survivor was Bonangera (Boni/Bonny) whose life-size plaster cast remains at the Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France. The silencing that Badtjala people continue to endure in the localised historiography of place is ongoing." - Dr Fiona Foley, Badtjala artist and academic
Fraser Island, 1882. The population of the Badtjala people is in sharp decline following a run of brutal massacres. When German scientist Louis Müller offers to sail three Badtjala people – Bonny, Jurano and Dorondera – to Europe to perform to huge crowds, the proud and headstrong Bonny agrees, hoping to bring his people’s plight to the Queen of England.
Accompanied by Müllers bright, grieving daughter, Hilda, the group begins their journey to belle-époque Europe to perfom in Hamburg, Berlin, Paris and eventually London. While crowds…
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