| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Australian studies: interdisciplinary perspectives ; volume 2 |
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Australian studies, interdisciplinary perspectives ; volume 2.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Indigenous cultural capital -- Decolonised landscape: Aboriginal connection to country -- Living memories and mechanism of forgetting: narratives of indigenous child separation -- Book reviews, prizes, and the paratextual space in children's books -- School texts: from "silent apartheid" to "cross-curriculum priority" -- The gift and the ethics of representing aboriginality |
| Summary |
This book explores how Australian Indigenous people's histories and cultures are deployed, represented and transmitted in post-Mabo children's literature authored by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers. The author examines how this literature acts as a form of resistance and helps to transform cultural relations in Australian society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Children's literature, Australian -- History and criticism
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Indigenous peoples in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Children's literature, Australian
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Indigenous peoples in literature
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Postcolonialism in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781787070783 |
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1787070786 |
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