The significance of Aboriginal writing as an emergent genre over the last twenty years; Aboriginal representations of Australian society and race relations this century; non-Indigenous representations of Aboriginal people in the history of Australian literature; Aboriginal texts as literature, history, and historiography; postcolonial theory and interpretation; Aboriginal cinema and performance and its relation to the emergence of Aboriginal writing and specific cultures; oral histories and questions of transcription and translation; publishing contexts, audiences and autonomy; questions of cross-cultural understanding and Reconciliation.
Dhuuluu-Yala : To Talk Straight : Publishing Indigenous Literature
Canberra
:
Aboriginal Studies Press
,
2003
Z1058158
2003
multi chapter work
criticism
(taught in 5 units)
This work discusses the history of defining Aboriginality in Australia and the experience of being Aboriginal. Both these factors have impacted on the production of Aboriginal writing within the wider context of Indigenous writing. The author also focuses on Indigenous publishing in other countries and how best to market and publish Aboriginal literature.
