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African literature & writers

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  • Gillian Whitlock
    Australian Literature : Points for Departure

    In the conclusion to her germinal study of sex, race and nation in Australian women's writing, Along the Faultlines (1995), Susan Sheridan questions the prevalent orientations of Australian and literary cultural studies. In particular she draws attention to its 'fixed…

    1 October 1999
  • Angela Smith
    Long Memoried Women: Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Jamaican Poet, Louise Bennett

    Jackie Kay's country is Scotland but she can be demonised within it because she is black. The poem's narrator has to assert her right to the land which does not itself erect barriers (the river shakes hands with the sea)…

    1 November 1994

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