Aboriginal literature - Portrayal of White culture
Articles
- Assimilation or Appropriation: Uses of European Literary Forms in Black Australian Writing
In his introduction to the anthology of Aboriginal poetry, Inside Black Australia Kevin Gilbert writes: 'Aboriginal poetry rattles, flings and bends the chains and…
1 October 1992 - Recent Australian Autobiography: A Review Essay
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…
1 October 1992 - Poetry and Politics in Oodgeroo: Transcending the Difference
Politics has been described in many ways, most of them unflattering and all of them seemingly opposed to whatever poetry may be. Politics is the…
1 November 1994 - From Kath Walker to Oodgeroo Noonuccal? : Ambiguity and Assurance in My People
My copy of My People—a 1986 reprint—has a photograph of Kath Walker on the cover. She sits on a rock at the edge of…
1 November 1994 - Fringe Finds Focus: Developments and Strategies in Aboriginal Writing in English
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…
1 June 1991