Aboriginal poetry
Articles
- Jindyworobaks and Aborigines1 May 1977
- Assimilation or Appropriation : Uses of European Literary Forms in Black Australian Writing1 October 1992
- Indigenous Sovereignty in the Poetry of Romaine Moreton
‘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…
1 October 2009 - 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…
1 November 1994 - Oodgeroo: Orator, Poet, Storyteller
The past and history have been foregrounded in Aboriginal consciousness as issues that demand attention whereas the history of white Australia has often been taken…
1 November 1994 - The Road Ahead
Long before the British invaded Australia our people expressed their emotions, our history, the sacred and secular events of our lives, via the medium of…
1 November 1994 - One Decade, Two Accounts: The Aboriginal Arts Board and ‘Aboriginal literature’, 1973-1983
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…
5 May 2016 - Interview with Kerry Reed-Gilbert
Interview conducted on 1-2 November 2014 in Canberra.
5 May 2016
Contributors
- Anne Brewster
- Anne Brewster
- Anne Brewster
- Brian Elliott
- Eve Mumewa D. Fesl
- Bob Hodge
- Ivor Indyk
- Eva Rask Knudsen
- Michelle Kelly
- Tim Rowse
- Kerry Reed-Gilbert