Acknowledgements state: 'What I stand or fall by - I think - in this simple tale of two aboriginal children who became lost and found their way home again, is an attempt to possess four worlds within one pair of covers, Reality and Fantasy, and the Past linked with the Present. Much of the lore of bush and blackfellow is of my own gathering, but also for much I am indebted to others. On the creative side as well as on the informative I am not without obligation. I admit making a steal in plain daylight from Sidney Long, A.R.A., and I have filched a thought from May Gibbs, too. My view is that I have taken from, and, I humbly hope, added to, the common stock. I wish especially to record my obligations to Mrs Bruce Pratt who urged me, two or three years ago, to write a story about children, who endorsed the plan I presented, who named Jackadgery and Nimmitybelle, who reminded me of the mist and the roly-polys, and who drew the decorations for the book. F. D. D.'
From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Children's Literature, 1840-1940
Toronto
:
University of Toronto Press
,
2018
15039944
2018
multi chapter work
criticism
'Through a comparison of Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand texts published between 1840 and 1940, From Colonial to Modern develops a new history of colonial girlhoods revealing how girlhood in each of these emerging nations reflects a unique political, social, and cultural context.
'Print culture was central to the definition, and redefinition, of colonial girlhood during this period of rapid change. Models of girlhood are shared between settler colonies and contain many similar attitudes towards family, the natural world, education, employment, modernity, and race, yet, as the authors argue, these texts also reveal different attitudes that emerged out of distinct colonial experiences. Unlike the imperial model representing the British ideal, the transnational girl is an adaptation of British imperial femininity and holds, for example, a unique perception of Indigenous culture and imperialism. Drawing on fiction, girls’ magazines, and school magazine, the authors shine a light on neglected corners of the literary histories of these three nations and strengthen our knowledge of femininity in white settler colonies.' (Publication summary)
Imagining Indigenality in Romance and Fantasy Fiction for Children
St Lucia
:
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource
,
2009
Z1132017
2003
single work
criticism
This essay explores how non-Indigenous authors of children's romance and fantasy narratives have positioned themselves as authorities on Indigenous peoples and the Dreaming, often authorising their own concepts of the Dreaming and of Indigenous history to inform and 'indigenise' non-Indigenous child readers.' Collins-Gearing, 2003, p. 32
Imagining Indigenality in Romance and Fantasy Fiction for Children
St Lucia
:
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource
,
2009
Z1132017
2003
single work
criticism
This essay explores how non-Indigenous authors of children's romance and fantasy narratives have positioned themselves as authorities on Indigenous peoples and the Dreaming, often authorising their own concepts of the Dreaming and of Indigenous history to inform and 'indigenise' non-Indigenous child readers.' Collins-Gearing, 2003, p. 32
