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Australian Jungle Stories : Legends of the Aborigines : Book No. 1
selected work
children's
Indigenous story
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Author's Foreword: This little book is to be the first of a Series on the Legends of the Australian Aborigines. Most of the stories have been published previously, but all are now out of print or very difficult to obtain. There will be a number of new Legends appearing in the series. When one says 'new Legends' one does not mean that they have just been written, but that they are appearing in print for the first time.
Where possible the district or tribe from which the story comes has been given, but in many cases this cannot be done, as the earlier collectors of Legends, at times, did not leave very complete records.
Robert Turner.
Mosman, April, 1944.
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Includes ten legends, each of which were previously published in Real Australian Jungle Stories : Legends of the Aborigines (1936).
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Digital Curation, AustLit, and Australian Children's Literature
2019
single work
criticism
— Appears in: International Research in Children's Literature , July vol. 12 no. 1 2019; (p. 1-17)'This paper examines the effects of curatorial processes used to develop children's literature digital research projects in the bibliographic database AustLit. Through AustLit's emphasis on contextualising individual works within cultural, biographical, and critical spaces, Australia's literary history is comprehensively represented in a unique digital humanities space. Within AustLit is BlackWords, a project dedicated to recording Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, publishing, and literary cultural history, including children's and young adult texts. Children's literature has received significant attention in AustLit (and BlackWords) over the last decade through three projects that are documented in this paper. The curation of this data highlights the challenges in presenting ‘national’ literatures in countries where minority voices were (and perhaps continue to be) repressed and unseen. This paper employs a ‘resourceful reading’ approach – both close and distant reading methods – to trace the complex and ever-evolving definition of ‘Australian children's literature’.'
Source: EUP.
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Digital Curation, AustLit, and Australian Children's Literature
2019
single work
criticism
— Appears in: International Research in Children's Literature , July vol. 12 no. 1 2019; (p. 1-17)'This paper examines the effects of curatorial processes used to develop children's literature digital research projects in the bibliographic database AustLit. Through AustLit's emphasis on contextualising individual works within cultural, biographical, and critical spaces, Australia's literary history is comprehensively represented in a unique digital humanities space. Within AustLit is BlackWords, a project dedicated to recording Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, publishing, and literary cultural history, including children's and young adult texts. Children's literature has received significant attention in AustLit (and BlackWords) over the last decade through three projects that are documented in this paper. The curation of this data highlights the challenges in presenting ‘national’ literatures in countries where minority voices were (and perhaps continue to be) repressed and unseen. This paper employs a ‘resourceful reading’ approach – both close and distant reading methods – to trace the complex and ever-evolving definition of ‘Australian children's literature’.'
Source: EUP.
