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Issue Details: First known date: 1938... 1938 Jindyworobak Anthology
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The Jindyworobak Anthology, published annually from 1938-1953, was initiated by South Australian poet Rex Ingamells. It published poetry that set out to avoid European influences and relate more closely to the Australian environment, history and traditions, including those of the Aboriginal people, searching in this way for an authentic expression of Australian culture. The name 'Jindyworobak' was taken from the glossary of James Devaney's The Vanished Tribes (1929), as an Aboriginal word meaning 'to annex', or 'join'. Ingamells adopted it for the movement as symbolic of the joining of 'white' and 'black' culture. The first issues of the Anthology, edited by Ingamells himself, did much to set the direction of the Jindyworobak movement and rapidly attracted contributors. However, the movement was waning by the nineteen-fifties and the 1953 Anthology was the last issued.

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  • Annual (1938)-(1953)
  • Imprint varies

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First known date: 1938

Works about this Work

'Fearful Affinity' : Jindyworobak Primitivism Peter Kirkpatrick , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Adelaide : A Literary City 2014; (p. 125-146)
Adelaide and the Country : The Literary Dimension Jill Roe , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Adelaide : A Literary City 2014; (p. 111-123)
Writing from the Periphery : The Haunted Landscapes of James McAuley Jean Page , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 1 2014;
Thoughts on Aboriginal Literature Jim Kable , 1985 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Aboriginal Child at School , February/March vol. 13 no. 1 1985; (p. 31-52)
Preface Colin Thiele , 1953 single work column
— Appears in: Jindyworobak Anthology, 1953 1953; (p. 3)
'Twas Ever Thus Miles Franklin , 1948 single work criticism
— Appears in: Jindyworobak Review, 1938-1948 1948; (p. 39-42)
Something More than an Editor's Note Rex Ingamells , 1941 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Jindyworobak Anthology, 1941 1941; (p. 4-9)
Jindyworobak Rex Ingamells , 1945 single work criticism
— Appears in: Jindyworobak Anthology, 1945 1945; (p. 63-66)
Notes Rex Ingamells , 1946 single work column
— Appears in: Jindyworobak Anthology, 1946 1946; (p. 68)
Foreward Rex Ingamells , 1947 single work column
— Appears in: Jindyworobak Anthology, 1947 1947; (p. 7-10)
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