Research Catalog

Title

Aboriginal writing today : papers from the First National Conference of Aboriginal Writers held in Perth, Western Australia in 1983 / edited by Jack Davis & Bob Hodge.

Author

National Conference of Aboriginal Writers (1st : 1983 : Perth, W. A.)

Publication

Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1985.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Davis, Jack, 1917-
• Hodge, Bob (Robert Ian Vere)
• Davis, Jack, 1917-2000.

Description

vii, 112 p.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

AIAS new series ; no. 56

Uniform Title

AIAS new series ; no. 56.

Subject

• Australian literature > Australian aboriginal authors > History and criticism > Congresses
• Aboriginal Australians in literature > Congresses
• Aboriginal Australians > Intellectual life > Congresses
• Australian literature > Aboriginal Australian authors > History and criticism > Congresses
• Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples > Intellectual life > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• "A selected bibliography of published Aboriginal literature": p. 105-109.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Opening address / Ronald M. Berndt -- Aboriginal writing / Jack Davis -- White forms, Aboriginal content / Colin Johnson -- Black policies / evin Gilbert -- the politics of Aboriginal literature / Bruce McGuinness and Denis Walker -- The role of research / Faith Bandler -- Black theater / Gerry Bostock -- Aboriginal poetry and white criticism / Cliff Watego -- Traditional Aboriginal oral literature / Catherine Berndt.

ISBN

0855751592 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^86108563^

OCLC

• 13794615
• SCSB-11125680

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library