Black words, white page : : Aboriginal literature, 1929-1988 / / Adam Shoemaker.

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Place / Publishing House:Canberra, ACT : : ANU E Press,, 2004
Year of Publication:2004
Edition:New edition.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Previous edition: University of Queensland Press, 1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Australia’s Fourth World Literature
  • 1. From depression to war
  • 2. Popular perceptions of an unpopular people, 1929-1945
  • 3. World War Two and the assimilation era: a self-destructive doctrine
  • 4. The literary perception, 1945-1961
  • 5. Progress and frustrated expectations: the era since 1961
  • 6. Views of Australian history in Aboriginal literature
  • 7. Sex and violence in the black Australian novel
  • 8. The poetry of politics: Australian Aboriginal verse
  • 9. Aboriginality and black Australian drama
  • 10. Conclusion: black words on white pages.