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Black words, white page : Aboriginal literature 1929-1988 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shoemaker, Adam
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Canberra : ANU E Press, 2004.
Edition:New ed.
Subjects:
Australian literature > Aboriginal Australian authors > History and criticism.
Australian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Aboriginal Australians in literature.
Australia > In literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Australian & Oceanian.
Australian literature.
Australian literature > Aboriginal Australian authors.
Literature.
Australia.
1900-1999
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Australia's Fourth World Literature
  • From Depression to War
  • Popular Perceptions of an Unpopular People, 1929-1945
  • World War II and the Assimilation Era: A Self-Destructive Doctrine
  • The Literary Perception, 1945-1961
  • Progress and Frustrated Expectations: The Era Since 1961
  • Views of Australian History in Aboriginal Literature
  • Sex and Violence in the Black Australian Novel
  • The Poetry of Politics: Australian Aboriginal Verse
  • Aboriginality and Black Australian Drama
  • Conclusion: Black Words on White Pages.