{"id":24344,"date":"2012-07-15T00:31:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T00:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24344"},"modified":"2015-03-22T20:24:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T20:24:47","slug":"double-native-a-moving-memoir-about-living-across-two-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24344","title":{"rendered":"Double Native: A moving memoir about living across two cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Double Native: A moving memoir about living across two cultures<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Queensland Press<\/a>
\n2012-01-03
\n304 pages
\nISBN: 978 0 7022 3917 5<\/p>\n

Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Growing up \u2018on country\u2019 on the west coast of Queensland\u2019s<\/a> Cape York Peninsula<\/a> in the 1970s and \u201980s, Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung had an idyllic traditional life. At the age of 16, she decided to pursue her dream of performing and moved to Sydney<\/a> to attend the NAISDA Dance College<\/a>. There she studied with the legendary Page brothers before they founded Bangarra Dance Theatre<\/a> and met her future husband and father of her three daughters.<\/p>\n

But the missing piece of her life was her father. As a young woman, she finds her father and carves out a fragile relationship with him. This inspires her to better understand her Austrian ancestry and how it meshes with her Indigenous identity.<\/p>\n

Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung is the model of a modern woman: mother and professional; performer and creator; teacher and student, urban dweller and remote community inhabitant. As such she shares the joys and challenges that come with growing up in a divided community and carving out a career as a solo parent.<\/p>\n

Double Native<\/em> is a powerful and candid memoir that offers a rare insight into the burgeoning years of the contemporary Indigenous dance movement and what it means to straddle two cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Double Native: A moving memoir about living across two cultures University of Queensland Press 2012-01-03 304 pages ISBN: 978 0 7022 3917 5 Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung Growing up \u2018on country\u2019 on the west coast of Queensland\u2019s Cape York Peninsula in the 1970s and \u201980s, Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung had an idyllic traditional life. At the age […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,395,11,8,17,4405,25],"tags":[986,6725,11289,11288,11290],"class_list":["post-24344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-oceania","category-women","tag-australia","tag-dance","tag-fiona-doyle","tag-fiona-wirrer-george-oochunyung","tag-university-of-queensland-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}