Aboriginal literature

Kim Scott's description of the Moore River Native Settlement, also known as Mogumber, in his 1999 novel Benang, suggests implicit analogies with the mid-century…

It is now eight years since the first book by Kath Walker caused a stir in Australian literary circles; and she has recently published her…

Van Toorn traces the development of European book culture and indigenous communication and writing in Australia.

There is clearly a new upsurge of comment on and interest in Aboriginal Australian culture, an interest manifested by the reissue of a number of…

Analyses the identity dilemmas in Sykes’s polemical and controversial autobiographical trilogy.

Maureen Clark's study of Colin Johnson/Mudrooroo's position in Australian literature and culture reads as a passionately honest attempt to take up the threads of the…

A review of The Circle and the Spiral: A Study of Australian Aboriginal and New Zealand Maori Literature by Eva Rask Knudsen, which critiques postcolonial…

Provides a bibliography of writings by Aboriginal Australians, including fiction, poetry and non-fiction, as well as interviews with writers.

When an Aboriginal writer appropriates western literary forms to tell stories of pre-invasion tribal heritage and culture, there is little objection from many black or…

Since its inception in 1992, the Oxford Australian Writers Series has published the literary biographies of fourteen Australian writers, five female and nine male, including…

In his introduction to the anthology of Aboriginal poetry, Inside Black Australia Kevin Gilbert writes: 'Aboriginal poetry rattles, flings and bends the chains and…

Phillip Mead discusses ‘two contemporary extensions of the discourse about the social and economic reality of extractive industries on the Indigenous plane of the literary…

In the Epilogue to Wild Card: An Autobiography 1923-1958 (1990) Dorothy Hewett returns to her 'first house', the house of childhood at Lambton Downs. The…

Thirty-seven years ago, when I worked for a few months as ration-storeman at Oombalgurri or Forrest River Mission, the Spanish Benedictine mission at Kalumburu seemed…

‘In this essay, I examine the ways in which Moreton’s literary oeuvre figures Indigeneity through the trope of sovereignty while also foregrounding the gendered nature…

The idea of putting together a group of papers taking up European perspectives on Australian literature came to me as the need to pick a…

Instead of regarding most Aboriginal writing as being merely 'a darker shade of pale' (168) this essay is an attempt to study it, as well…

In 1983, a decade after the establishment of the Aboriginal Arts Board (AAB), the Australia Council published a report that presented two competing accounts of…

Interview conducted on 1-2 November 2014 in Canberra.

This essay examines the three Yarra River stories in Tony Birch’s short fiction collections. ‘The Sea of Tranquillity’ ‘The Chocolate Empire’ and ‘The Toecutters’ all…