| Description |
xxiv, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Camden House companion volumes |
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Camden House companion volumes.
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| Contents |
Indigenous life writing: rethinking poetics and practice / Michael R. Griffiths -- Australian Aboriginal life writers and their editors: cross-cultural -- Collaboration, authorial intention, and the impact of editorial choices / Jennifer Jones -- Contemporary life writing: inscribing double voice in intergenerational collaborative life-writing projects / Martina Horakova -- European translations of Australian aboriginal texts / Danica Cerce and Oliver Haag -- Tracing a trajectory from songpoetry to contemporary aboriginal poetry / Stuart Cooke -- Rites/rights/writes of passage: identity construction in Australian aboriginal young adult fiction / Jeanine Leane -- Humor in contemporary Aboriginal adult fiction / Paula Anca Farca -- White shadows: the gothic tradition in Australian Aboriginal literature / Katrin Althans -- Bold, black, and brilliant: Aboriginal Australian drama / Maryrose Casey -- The "stolen generations" in feature film: the approach of Aboriginal director Rachel Perkins and others / Theodore F. Sheckels -- A history of popular indigenous music / Andrew King |
| Summary |
This international collection of eleven original essays on Australian Aboriginal literature provides a comprehensive critical companion that contextualizes the Aboriginal canon for scholars, researchers, students, and general readers |
| Analysis |
Aboriginal culture |
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Aborigines |
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Australian |
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Australian literature |
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Essays |
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Literary criticism |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- History and criticism.
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Australian literature -- Authors, Australian -- History and criticism
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| Author |
Wheeler, Belinda, 1974- editor of compilation
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| LC no. |
2013010308 |
| ISBN |
9781571135216 (hardback) |
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