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'Reviews Aboriginal writing in English against background of political events and racial attitudes; follows themes of Aboriginal identity, political activity through poetry, Aboriginal representation of history, sex and violence in novels; analyses individual works including those by white writers with Aboriginal themes; bibliography of works consulted pp.249-271; identifies Black writers.' Source: Libraries Australia (Sighted 07/05/2009).
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 1985.
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Black Words, White Page : Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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1989
Z106800
1989
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Shoemaker's primary concern is to look at the beginning of 'black people's' writing in Australia since the 1960s and focus on the nascent literary canon emerging through Aboriginal writing. Shoemaker moves the readership through non-Aboriginal authors such as Katharine Susannah Prichard (1929) and Xavier Herbert (1938) in a chapter entitled 'Popular Perceptions of Unpopular People to Progress and Frustrated Expectations: The Era Since 1961'. Where Aboriginal writing begins, for Shoemaker's purposes, is an area of literary production he describes as 'fourth world literature'.
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