{"product_id":"wanamurraganya-the-story-of-jack-mcphee-by-sally-morgan","title":"'Wanamurraganya: The Story of Jack McPhee' by Sally Morgan","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"129\" data-end=\"531\"\u003eEmerging in the wake of \u003cem data-start=\"303\" data-end=\"313\"\u003eMy Place\u003c\/em\u003e, the book belongs to a crucial period in Australian publishing when Indigenous life writing began to circulate more widely in book form, foregrounding oral history, kinship, and survival against institutional erasure.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"533\" data-end=\"967\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFirst published in 1989, \u003cem data-start=\"154\" data-end=\"170\"\u003eWanamurraganya\u003c\/em\u003e records the life history of Jack McPhee, an Aboriginal man from Western Australia, as told to Sally Morgan. The text is deliberately plainspoken and attentive to voice, shaped by storytelling rather than literary flourish. Its importance lies less in narrative construction than in its function as testimony: a record of labour, displacement, family, and continuity, situated within a Western Australian context often marginalised in national accounts. The book remains a key teaching text in Indigenous studies and Australian social history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"969\" data-end=\"1131\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"969\" data-end=\"984\"\u003eEdition note:\u003c\/em\u003e First edition. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1989. Paperback. Printed in Western Australia. Light general wear consistent with age; interior clean.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43901033283667,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/e96775a7-305a-48dd-a3fb-7493c91e0489.jpg?v=1769386662","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/wanamurraganya-the-story-of-jack-mcphee-by-sally-morgan","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}