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The Bulletin
vol.
77
no.
3978
9 May
1956
Z595639
1956
periodical issue
1956
pg.
23,30
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Black-Feller, White-Feller
Sydney
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Angus and Robertson
,
1958
Z424624
1958
selected work
short story
Sydney
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Angus and Robertson
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1958
pg.
124-125
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Aboriginal Myths and Legends
Roland Robinson
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T. G. H. Strehlow
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Melbourne
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Sun Books
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1966
Z154305
1966
anthology
prose
dreaming story
'This ... collection of Aboriginal myths is particularly important as the first comprehensive collection to be made. Each story has an introductory note and its mythology explained, and many beautiful Aboriginal drawings are included.' (Backcover).
Melbourne
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Sun Books
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1977
pg.
208-212
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The Oxford Book of Australian Ghost Stories
Ken Gelder
(editor),
Melbourne
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Oxford University Press
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1994
Z356827
1994
anthology
short story
crime
young adult
'Did Australian ghosts suffer from a cultural cringe? Dr Ken Gelder indicates in the introduction to another fascinating OUP anthology that early ghost stories were essentially a "transported genre" that looked back to England as their source. Thus John Lang's well-known story "The Ghost upon
the Rail" is based upon a case of murder for post-convict wealth.
Gelder argues that Australian ghost stories possess their own ironical flavour, but the gothic tradition has to be resolved in outback locations or deserted mining towns, as in David Rowbotham's "A Schoolie and the Ghost".'
'Gelder relies heavily on Victorian and Edwardian writers, such as Marcus Clarke, Barbara Baynton and Hume Nisbet, as if unsure as to the nature of contemporary ghosts. It is interesting to see that Australia's science fiction writers, such as Lucy Sussex and Terry Dowling, provide the link between the past and the present. Dowling's "The Daeman Street Ghost-Trap" effectively uses traditional settings to link ghosts with a current horror, namely cancer. Several bunyip stories remind us of a particular Antipodean creature to stand against the assorted European manifestations.'
(Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.55).
Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1994 pg. 250-251
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