Seven Sisters: Messages from Aboriginal Australia
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According to Australia's ancient cultures, all creatures and things emerged from the Dreamtime. The Dr
Laine Cunningham
Laine Cunningham is a three-time recipient of The Hackney Award with prior publications in Pangyrus, Reed, Birmingham Arts, Fiction Southeast, Wraparound South, As You Were, Pensive, Borrowed Solace, Keeping Room, and Garfield Lake Review. She is the editor of Sunspot Literary Journal, an international arts and literature publication dedicated to speaking truth through every voice.
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Reviews for Seven Sisters
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really enjoyed this book. It is an interesting mixture of fiction, fable, spirituality, and gender studies. I would recommend it to anyone interested in any of these genres. I'm glad I was chosen to read this book because I might not have chosen it on my own, so thank you to Library Thing. I don't want to give away the premises of the Seven Sisters, so you'll need to be intrigued enough to read it on your own!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Cunningham's work Seven Sisters is a collection of oral tales of life lessons from the Dreamtime of the Aboriginal Australians. The stories are told and then the author gives the reader her take on it in "The Message". The author also tries to tie the tales into modern world affairs and the affairs of the United States as well. Most have to do with relations between men and women and the endless story of life and becoming women and men as told through these tales. Just as in many Native American tales of how humans came into being and the lessons learned over countless generations about how to deal with the events in a person's life experiences. Cunningham gives some statistics on current conditions and how that relates back to the tale. As you read the work you get a better understanding about the culture and folk history of the Aboriginal Australians. Read the book while watching Crocodile Dundee part one and two. The author did a six month walkabout to learn and experience the tales and to get tuned into her spirit self. It appears her intent was to write this work as a self help style book. Personally, I had hoped for more on the tales and less explanation from the author. The tales are good and could stand alone and let the reader take the lessons within each tale and learn from those life experiences from their prospective. The author seems to keep coming back to a central theme of that women are not treated as well as men in the world and here in the United States. This work could be used in a women's study class or a history of Australia class. Have to say make your own choice after reading it. That why it only gets three stars from me.