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- 1975-1980 (Creation)
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9 items, 15 folders
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This series contains drafts, notes, newspaper cuttings, and correspondence. Something in the blood was published by University of Queensland Press (UQP) in 1979. Consisting of fifteen (15) short stories set in Papua New Guinea before its Independence. The short story Drowning was first published in the New Guinea Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 3, 1975-76. Some stories contain short passages in Pidgin. The stories deal with the themes of local customs, attitudes, acts of aggression, missionaries, loneliness, and racism. Includes drafts, cuttings of reviews from journals and magazine, scripts of radio plays adapted from the stories, and related correspondence.
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Arranged chronologically and alphabetically where possible:
Box 1
Item 1-7 handwritten notes books with short story drafts.
Folder 1 : ‘Archaeologist’, ‘Arigato’, ’Armenia’, ‘Christmas’, ‘Cowries’, ‘Farrell’, ‘Kin’, ‘Pages from a Lost Journal’, ‘Trevally’, ‘Virgin’.
Folder 2 : ‘Scribblings of Trevor’s Idle Mind’.
Folder 3-4 :‘Boi’.
Folder 5 : ‘Brothers’ corrected first draft.
Folder 6 : ‘Christmas’.
Folder 7 :‘Drowning’.
Folder 8 :‘Essays on my brother’.
Folder 9 : ‘Priest’.
Folder 10-11 : ‘The Road’.
Box 2
Folder 1 : Letter from Craig Munro to Trevor Shearston which accompanied the bound presentation copy of book Something in the blood, signed by Frank Thompson, Cyrelle Thompson, and Craig Munro (catalogued separately), 11 Jul 1979.
Folder 2 : Edited final drafts – returned from UQP with letter dated 18 Sep 1980.
Folder 3 : Journal cuttings, photocopies and an issue of Bikmaus, v.1 no.1, 1980, with reviews, 1979 to 1980.
Folder 4 : Scripts of radio plays adapted from stories, "Boi", "Arigato", and "In the trenches" [by Trevor Shearston], National Broadcasting Commission, PNG.
Item 1 : Copy of journal New Guinea, no.3, vol.10, 1975-76 with the first published short story from collection, 'Drowning'.
Item 2 : Copy of journal Paradise, no.21, Jan 1980, containing story ‘Arigato’.
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Unrestricted access
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Copyright applies
Language of material
- English
- Tok Pisin
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Some stories contain short passages in Pidgin. Included in the book, in the author's note, is a guide to Pidgin words used in the stories.
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Box 1 Folders 1-11, Items 1-7; Box 2 Folders 1-4, Items 1-2
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Final
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Created, Linda Justo, 15-Oct-2019