DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR
delusions Of Grandeur Is A Sweeping Portrait Of An Aboriginal Family’s Battle For Survival During The Depression Years. Lucy Eatock Is Raised And Educated By A Respectable White Family, But Becomes An Outcast When She Chooses To Marry A Man Of Her Own Colour, A Travelling Boxer And Wild Jackeroo. Born In A Camp Tent, Her Son Roderick Struggles Valiantly In The Back Blocks Of New South Wales And On The Mean Steets Of Sydney For What He Knows Is Right. He Watches As Those Around Him Wrestle With Poverty, Racism And Cruel Injustice But Are Ultimately Beaten Down. He Educates Himself And During The Heat Of The Struggles Against Mass-evictions And Homelessness, Falls In Love With Elizabeth, A Sassy, Educated Emigre From Scotland. Eventually The Social Barriers Roderick Confronts And The Psychological Defences He Constructs To Survive Them Build To A Pressure-cooker Intensity. This Is A True Story Told With Warmth And Humour.
Joan Eveline Eatock was born in the seaside town of Redcliffe, Queensland, in 1936. In the early 1950s, she became a member of the Communist Party and was active in the anti-Vietnam movement, and in 1967 campaigned for Aboriginal citizenship. In 1974 Joan, already an enrolled nurse, attended the first Aboriginal designated course, at Sydney TAFE, to become a registered nurse, an occupation at which she worked for many years. Joan later contributed to the formation of the Greater Lithgow Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation and taught Aboriginal studies at the local prison. She hopes to retire next year, before her seventieth birthday.
ISBN | 9781864650549 |
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Format | Paperback |
Number of Pages | 232 |
Published | 01/08/2003 |