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Black Words, White Page : Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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1989
Z106800
1989
single work
criticism
(taught in 1 units)
Shoemaker's primary concern is to look at the beginning of 'black people's' writing in Australia since the 1960s and focus on the nascent literary canon emerging through Aboriginal writing. Shoemaker moves the readership through non-Aboriginal authors such as Katharine Susannah Prichard (1929) and Xavier Herbert (1938) in a chapter entitled 'Popular Perceptions of Unpopular People to Progress and Frustrated Expectations: The Era Since 1961'. Where Aboriginal writing begins, for Shoemaker's purposes, is an area of literary production he describes as 'fourth world literature'.
St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1989 pg. 179-229
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Subjects:
- We Are Going : Poems 1962 selected work poetry
- The Dawn Is at Hand 1966 selected work poetry
- The First-Born and Other Poems 1970 selected work poetry
- Jagardoo : Poems from Aboriginal Australia 1977 selected work poetry
- End of Dream-Time 1971 selected work poetry
- People are Legends 1971 single work poetry
- The Song Circle of Jacky and Selected Poems 1986 selected work poetry
- Kargun 1980 selected work poetry
- Yoogum Yoogum 1982 selected work poetry
