Indigenous Literature of Australia: Milli Milli Wangka

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Hyland House, 1997 - Literary Criticism - 233 pages
Here is a wide-ranging, critical survey of the literature, both oral and written, of the indigenous people of Australia. Mudrooroo is in a unique position to tell the history of indigenous literature and to comment on the key writers and texts. This is an essential starting point for anyone wishing to know more about this fascinating and controversial subject.

From inside the book

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Indigenous and Mainstream Literature
49
Reconciling Our Songs
107
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

Aboriginal Reconciliation accepted aesthetic ancestors Anglo-Celtic anthropologists Arnhem Land assimilation Berndt Bran Nue Dae Centre cf m cf civilisation constructed critics David Unaipon discourse Djanggawul Djaringalong dominant drama Dreaming edited epic European fact fiction Fringe genre identity ideology ideotones Indigenous communities Indigenous culture Indigenous English Indigenous literature Indigenous music Indigenous oral Indigenous person Indigenous texts Indigenous women Indigenous writers Jack Davis Jackie Jackie Huggins Kadaitcha Sung Kath Walker Kevin Gilbert language Lionel Fogarty literary maban reality magic mainstream Margaret Somerville Mudrooroo Murri narrative natural sciences natural scientific reality non-Indigenous Noonuccal novel Nyungar Oodgeroo perhaps play poems poet poetry political postmodern problem produced published Queensland reader Sally Morgan seek settler social songlines songs standard English story storytelling Strehlow structure style Sydney Ted Egan theatre things Tiddas tion traditional Indigenous verse volume Western Australia white Australian words written Yothu Yindi

About the author (1997)

Colin Johnson was born in Cuballing, Western Australia on August 21, 1938. During his childhood and young adulthood, he spent time in state care, an orphanage, and Fremantle Prison. He was a novelist and poet who wrote about the struggles of modern Aboriginals to adapt to life in a society dominated by whites. His first book Wild Cat Falling was published in 1965. He changed his name to Mudrooroo Nyoongah in 1988. Afterward he published under the names Mudrooroo Nyoongah, Mudrooroo Narogin, and Mudrooroo. His other novels included Long Live Sandawara, Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World, Doin Wildcat, Wildcat Screaming, The Kwinkan, Master of the Ghost Dreaming, Undying, Underground, and The Promised Land. His poetry collections included Song Circle of Jacky; Dalwurra, the Black Bittern; Collected Poems; Pacific Highway Boo-Blooz: Country Poems; and Old Fellow Poems. His plays included Big Sunday and Mutjinggaba: The Place of the Old Woman. His nonfiction works included Before the Invasion: Aboriginal Life to 1788; Writing from the Fringe: A Study of Modern Aboriginal Literature; Us Mob: History, Culture, Struggle; and Indigenous Literature of Australia: Milli Milli Wangka. In 1996 his sister wrote a newspaper article claiming the family's ancestry was Irish and African American and not Indigenous. Due to the public controversy, he left Australia in 2001 and moved to Nepal. He died on January 20, 2019 at the age of 80.

Bibliographic information

TitleIndigenous Literature of Australia: Milli Milli Wangka
AuthorsMudrooroo, Mudrooroo Narogin
Edition2
PublisherHyland House, 1997
ISBN1864470143, 9781864470147
Length233 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Literary Criticism / Australian & Oceanian
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / General
Social Science / Indigenous Studies
  
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