Ruth Park’s Harp in the South is a story about Aboriginal Country

  • Written by: Monique Rooney, Senior lecturer in literature, film and new media, Australian National University
Ruth Park’s Harp in the South is a story about Aboriginal CountryBiripi/Worimi actor Guy Simon as Charlie Rothe (Daniel Boud/STC) and Harp in the South author Ruth Park (right).

Ruth Park’s novel The Harp in the South (1948) is a classic of Australian fiction. Just as television viewers in recent decades would recognise “Ramsay Street” as the fictional centre of Australia’s...

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