Australian Aboriginal Women Writers and the Process of Defining and Articulating Aboriginality

• Autores: Dolors Collellmir
• Localización: Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities / Elizabeth Russell (ed. lit.), 2002, ISBN 9789042013681, págs. 53-75
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES reached a consensus in the 1960s "to enlighten the white public to the grievances and aims of black Australians through literature." At that time, the Aborigines were on their way to extinction. They had barely survived a century and a half of massacres and maltreatment and, more recently, government policies of displacement and assimilation. At that crucial moment in the history of Aboriginal people, their literature, which until then had been oral and graphic, appeared principally in written form. As Aboriginal writers adopted strategies to recover their past and document their history and traditions, a new era began in which "for the first time a sense of common interest and group solidarity" would develop. Their object was to delve into their cultural depth, define an identity which the Aboriginal groups could share, and educate the Australian community at large. (...).