Recovery and Restoration : Changing Identities of Aboriginal Women in Australia
1999
Z1019315
1999
single work
thesis
The thesis critically examines four autobiographical writers. These four writers, Margaret Tucker, Glenyse Ward, Sally Morgan and Ruby Langford Ginibi illustrate different ways of constructing an Aboriginal identity in their published texts.
'Less than fifteen years ago, on 23rd May 1984, a few months after her fiftieth birthday, a black woman who had always told her nine children she would write a book some day, sat down to do so. She had left school at the age of fifteen, unable to imagine a future for a black teacher of either white or black children. Instead,she trained as a clothing machinist in Sydney, and through hard necessity later acquired the bush skills of 'fencing, burning off,lopping and ring-barking, and pegging roo skins'...' (extract)
Fictions of White Australia : Identity, Land and Community in Contemporary Australian Women's Life Narratives
1996
Z1019304
1996
single work
thesis
Recovery and Restoration : Changing Identities of Aboriginal Women in Australia
1999
Z1019315
1999
single work
thesis
The thesis critically examines four autobiographical writers. These four writers, Margaret Tucker, Glenyse Ward, Sally Morgan and Ruby Langford Ginibi illustrate different ways of constructing an Aboriginal identity in their published texts.
