y separately published work icon The Legend of Kupirri, or, The Red Kangaroo : An Aboriginal Tradition of the Port Lincoln Tribe single work   poetry   Indigenous story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1858... 1858 The Legend of Kupirri, or, The Red Kangaroo : An Aboriginal Tradition of the Port Lincoln Tribe
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Indigenous story told in verse form.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Adelaide, South Australia,: Alfred N. Cawthorne , 1880-1889 .
      Alternative title: The Legend of Kuperee, or, The Red Kangaroo : An Aboriginal Tradition of the Port Lincoln Tribe : A Metrical Version
      Extent: 35p.
      Edition info: 2nd ed.
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Kangaroo Redux : Reading the Conflicts of South Australian Settler Colonialism in W.A. Cawthorne’s Kuperree Jonah Shallit , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , 30 September vol. 37 no. 2 2022;

'This essay examines the evolving discourses of settler indigenisation and Indigenous extinction in South Australia through the two markedly different editions of William Anderson Cawthorne’s poem Kuperree, a major work of nineteenth-century Australian ethnographic verse published in 1858 and 1885. With reference to archival material on the life of William Cawthorne, this essay first offers a corrective account of the publication history of Kuperree, which has been a point of confusion for scholars of nineteenth-century Australian literary history.' (Introduction)
Kangaroo Redux : Reading the Conflicts of South Australian Settler Colonialism in W.A. Cawthorne’s Kuperree Jonah Shallit , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , 30 September vol. 37 no. 2 2022;

'This essay examines the evolving discourses of settler indigenisation and Indigenous extinction in South Australia through the two markedly different editions of William Anderson Cawthorne’s poem Kuperree, a major work of nineteenth-century Australian ethnographic verse published in 1858 and 1885. With reference to archival material on the life of William Cawthorne, this essay first offers a corrective account of the publication history of Kuperree, which has been a point of confusion for scholars of nineteenth-century Australian literary history.' (Introduction)
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