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"Based on historical fact, the story follows the life of a certain half caste Aboriginal named Jimmy Governor. Jimmy marries a white girl hoping to achieve assimiliation into white society but, instead, he becomes an object of loathing and ridicule. In the winter of 1900, after some harassment from farmers, he murders a family near Gilgandra in New South Wales. He and his full blood Aborigine brother, Joey embark upon an odyssey of murdering whites. Hunted and hounded, he is eventually captured, tried, sentenced to death, and executed."
"First title in the launch of Bolinda's Australian Classics series, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is an ongoing Australian literary classic, nominated for the Booker Prize and written by the multi-award-winning author, Thomas Keneally. Jimmie Blacksmith is the son of an Aboriginal mother and a white father. A missionary shows him what it means to be white - already he is only too aware of what it means to be black. Exploited by his white employers and betrayed by his white wife, Jimmie cannot take any more. He must find a way to express his rage. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is based on an actual incident that occurred at the turn of the century. Set against the background of a turbulent Australian history, Thomas Keneally records with clarity the chant of one troubled man."
""On its release in 1978, Fred Schepisi's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith confronted audiences with a depiction of violence, racism and exploitation in the harsh Australian outback. Based on Thomas Keneally's award-winning novel, the film is a dramatisation of the real-life story of Jimmy Governor, the part-Aboriginal bushranger hanged for multiple murders in 1901. A vision of rage and revenge striking out against an unjust and intolerant society, the film brought sharply into focus issues of race and identity in Australian society." "In this compelling critique, Henry Reynolds explores the difficult relationship between fiction and history. Reynolds views The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith in its political and historical context, and examines the ways in which a study of Australian cinema is also a study of Australian social issues."--Back cover."
"When Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman, the backlash from both Jimmie's tribe and white society initiates a series of dramatic events. As Jimmie tries to survive between two cultures, tensions build, reaching a head when the Newbys, Jimmie's white employers, try to break up his marriage."
"The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a 1972 Booker Prize nominated novel by Thomas Keneally and a 1978 Australian film of the same name directed by Fred Schepisi. The novel is based on the life of bushranger Jimmy Governor."
"Based on an actual incident that occurred at the turn of the century. Set against the background of a turbulent Australian history. Records with clarity the chant of one troubled man Jimmie Blacksmith the son of an Aboriginal mother and a white father."

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"Drama"
"Drama"@en
"Film adaptations"
"Movie novels"
"Fiction"
"Fiction"@en
"Electronic books"
"Historical fiction"
"Historical fiction"@en
"Tekstuitgave"
"Classic"@en

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"The Chant of Jimmie blacksmith"
"The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith"
"The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith"@en
"The chant of Jimmie Blackismith"
"The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith : Thomas Keneally"
"Balada o črnem Jimmieju"@sl
"The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith"
"The chant of Jimmy Blacksmith : a novel"
"Balada o crnem Jimmieju"
"Australische Ballade : Roman"
"The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith"@en
"The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith"
"The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith : screenplay"@en
"The chant of Jimmy Blacksmith"@en
"The chant of Jimmy Blacksmith"
"Nyanyian seorang aborijin"

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