Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 One Decade, Two Accounts: The Aboriginal Arts Board and ‘Aboriginal Literature’, 1973-1983
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'... In this essay we set this internally dissonant review in three contexts: the 1960s critical response to the first works of Kath Walker and Colin Johnson; the AAB’s and other Commonwealth agencies’ critique of assimilation and defence of ‘tradition’; and the rise of an assertive urban Aboriginal constituency for the AAB. These contexts help define and describe the terms in which the AAB supported ‘Aboriginal literature’ in the period 1973 to 1983. ...'

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