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Author McLaren, John, 1932-2015, author

Title Australian literature : an historical introduction / John McLaren
Published Melbourne : Longman Cheshire, 1989
©1989

Copies

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 W'PONDS  827.6 M16143/A  AVAILABLE
 MELB  827.6 M16143/A  AVAILABLE
Description xix, 272 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 25 cm
Contents 1. A tainted paradise -- 2. Explorers and visionaries -- 3. New settlements -- 4. Far horizons and dark clouds -- 5. A little radicalism -- 6. Reconsiderations -- 7. Renaissance and revolution -- 8. War: The changing response -- 9. Sydney or the bush: Savage wilderness -- 10. The radical nationalists -- 11. Socialism and realism -- 12. A heightened reality -- 13. Origins -- 14. Otherworlds -- 15. Breaking the boundaries -- Afterword
Summary Includes introduction to traditional and contemporary Aboriginal literature; discussion of Paddy Roe, B. Wongar , Ooderoo Noonuccal (Kath Walker), Faith Bandler, Kevin Gilbert and Mudrooroo Nyoongah (Colin Johnson)
Analysis Australian literature History and criticism
Notes For tertiary students
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-260) and index
Audience For tertiary students
Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Subject Australian literature -- History and criticism.
Australian literature.
LC no. 90127407
ISBN 0582712793 (paperback)