Australian Literature: A Preliminary Subject Checklist

Abstract

Provides a bibliography of works engaged with the subject of 'Australian literature' broadly conceived. It aims at giving a diversified picture of Australian literature by emphasising its regional tendencies, its links with Europe, the United States, Canada, and East Asia, the role individual groups in Australian society have played in its formation, and some of its themes and forms.

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Published 1 October 1984 in Volume 11 No. 4. Subjects: Aboriginal Australians - Literary portrayal, Australia - Literary portrayal, Australian children's literature, Australian literature - Comparisons with overseas literature, Jindyworobaks, Regionalism, Science fiction.

Cite as: Priessnitz, Horst. ‘Australian Literature: A Preliminary Subject Checklist.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 11, no. 4, 1984, doi: 10.20314/als.59731764c5.