Aboriginal women writers
Articles
- Beyond Capricornia: Ambiguous Promise in Alexis Wright
The article discusses the polarised response to Wright’s work. The author argues that it is Wright’s ‘blend of realism and the visionary that marks the…
1 May 2009 - Review of Helen Garner, by Kerryn Goldsworthy, Masks, Tapestries, Journeys: Essays in Honour of Dorothy Jones, edited by Gerry Turcotte, and Reading Aboriginal Women's Autobiography, by Anne Brewster
Since its inception in 1992, the Oxford Australian Writers Series has published the literary biographies of fourteen Australian writers, five female and nine male, including…
1 May 1998 - The Aboriginal Subject in Autobiography: Ruby Langford’s Don’t Take Your Love to Town
A sense of 'who I was' issues from the record of the life; it does not precede and shape that record. Langford's need to articulate…
1 May 1993 - Indigenous Sovereignty in the Poetry of Romaine Moreton
‘In this essay, I examine the ways in which Moreton’s literary oeuvre figures Indigeneity through the trope of sovereignty while also foregrounding the gendered nature…
1 October 2009 - Long Memoried Women: Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Jamaican Poet, Louise Bennett
Discusses parallels between Oodgeroo and the Jamaican poet Louise Bennett, writers who shared 'the insight to recognise the value of her own indigenous culture, unpopular…
1 November 1994 - A Mate in Publishing
Australia in 1972 was almost ready for the "It's Time" election when I took a job at Brian Clouston's Jacaranda Press. Two years before, Kath…
1 November 1994 - Maang: Bagaan Di (a Message for My Elder Sister)
I was a young, impressionable Aboriginal Australian when I first saw her; she was stating her view on television, cleverly honing her point with flashing…
1 November 1994 - From Kath Walker to Oodgeroo Noonuccal? : Ambiguity and Assurance in My People
My copy of My People—a 1986 reprint—has a photograph of Kath Walker on the cover. She sits on a rock at the edge of…
1 November 1994 - Oodgeroo: Orator, Poet, Storyteller
The past and history have been foregrounded in Aboriginal consciousness as issues that demand attention whereas the history of white Australia has often been taken…
1 November 1994
Contributors
- Anne Brewster
- Anne Brewster
- John Collins
- Eva Rask Knudsen
- Philip McLaren
- Tim Rowse
- Paul Sharrad
- Angela Smith
- Chris Watson