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Author Bradford, Clare, author

Title Reading race : Aboriginality in Australian children's literature / Clare Bradford
Published Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2001
©2001

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Description vii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
regular print
Contents 1. Colonial discourse and its fictions -- 2. Religious discourses and aboriginality -- 3. Intersecting discourses: gender and race in children's books -- 4. Speaking for the aborigines: knowledge, power and aboriginalism -- 5. White on black in criticism and fiction: contemporary dilemmas -- 6. Indigenous voices in children's literature -- 7. Towards reconciliation? Crosscultural encounters in the 1990s -- 8. Narratives of identity and history in settler colony texts
Summary This text looks at the ways in which Australia's indigenous peoples have been, and continue to be, represented in books for children. These varying representations have helped to colour the attitudes, beliefs and assumptions of different generations of Australians
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 263-275
Subject Aboriginal Australians in literature.
Children -- Books and reading -- Australia.
Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile literature.
Children's literature, Australian -- History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Racism in literature.
Race relations in literature.
SUBJECT Australia -- Race relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476 -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011414
Australia -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476
LC no. 2002392306
ISBN 0522849547
9780522849547
Other Titles Aboriginality in Australian children's literature
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