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'In her article "Aboriginal Australian and Canadian First Nations Children's
Literature" Angeline O'Neill discusses Canadian First Nations and Australian Aboriginal
children's picture books and their appeal to a dual readership. Inuit traditional storyteller
and writer Michael Kusugak, Nyoongar traditional storyteller and writer Lorna Little, and
Wunambal elder Daisy Utemorrah are cases in point. Each appeals to Indigenous and non-
Indigenous, child and adult readerships, thus challenging two assumptions in Western
scholarship on literature that 1) the picture book genre is necessarily the domain of children
and 2) that traditional Indigenous stories are, similarly, best suited to children. O'Neill
considers the ways in which Indigenous children's picture books represent the interaction
between text and culture and challenge notions of literariness.' (Editor's abstract)
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Aboriginal Australian and Canadian First Nations Children's Literature
CLCWeb : Comparative Literature and Culture
Subjects:
- The Mark of the Wagarl 2004 single work picture book
- Do Not Go Around the Edges : Poems 1990 selected work poetry autobiography
- Story About Feeling 1989 selected work poetry
- Our Mother Land 1990 single work poetry
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