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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shoemaker, Adam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian literature--Aboriginal Australian authors--History and criticism.

Australian literature.

First edition.Australian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

First edition.Australian literature.

Aboriginal Australians in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This award-winning study - the first comprehensive treatment of the nature and significance of Indigenous Australian literature - was based upon the author's doctoral research at The Australian National University and was first published by UQP in 1989.

Contents:

Intro

Preface to the 2004 Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. From Depression to War

2. Popular Perceptions of an Unpopular People, 1929-1945

3. World War II 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

List of Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780975122969

0975122967

OCLC:

1000453052