Anthology of Australian Aboriginal literature

Responsibility
edited by Anita Heiss and Peter Minter ; general editor, Nicholas Jose.
Imprint
Montréal [Quebec] ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2008.
Physical description
xviii, 260 p. ; 23 cm.

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Creators/Contributors

Contributor
Heiss, Anita.
Minter, Peter, 1967-
Jose, Nicholas, 1952-

Contents/Summary

Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-255) and index.
Contents
  • Foreword / Mick Dodson
  • Preface / Nicholas Jose
  • Acknowledgements Anita Heiss and Peter Minter
  • List of Abbreviations Aboriginal Literature / Anita Heiss and Peter Minter BENNELONG (c. 1764-1813) / Letter to Mr Philips, Lord Sydney's Steward
  • THOMAS BRUNE (c. 1823-1841): The Aboriginal or Flinders Island Chronicle
  • The Flinders Island Weekly Chronicle
  • Weekly Chronicle
  • MARY ANN ARTHUR (c. 1819-1871) / Letter to Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen's Land
  • WALTER GEORGE ARTHUR (c. 1820-1861) / Letter to Colonial Secretary, Van Diemen's Land
  • KITTY BRANGY (c. 1859-1918) / Letter to Edith Brangy
  • WILLIAM BARAK (c. 1824-1903) / Letter to the Editor by the Coranderrk Aborigines
  • ANNIE RICH (c. 1859-1937) / Letter to Solicitor, for Captain Page, Secretary of the Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines
  • BESSIE CAMERON (c. 1851-1895) / Letter to the Editor
  • MAGGIE MOBOURNE (c. 1872-1917) / Petition to D.N. McLeod, Vice-Chairman of the Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines
  • DAVID UNAIPON (1872-1967) / Aborigines, Their Traditions and Customs: Where Did They Come From?: Hungarrda
  • Narrinyeri Saying
  • The Voice of the Great Spirit
  • NORMAN HARRIS (c. 1898-1968) / Letter to Jim Bassett
  • WILLIAM COOPER (c. 1861-1941) / Petition to the King
  • ANNA MORGAN (1874-1935) / Under the Black Flag
  • WILLIAM FERGUSON (1882-1950) and JOHN PATTEN (1905-1957) / Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights! / PEARL GIBBS (1901-1983) / Radio Broadcast
  • OODGEROO NOONUCCAL (1920-1993) / Speech Launching the Petition of the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement
  • Aboriginal Charter of Rights
  • The Dispossessed
  • We Are Going
  • Assimiliation--No!
  • Integration--Yes!
  • The Dawn is at Hand
  • No More Boomerang
  • Ballad of the Totems
  • DOUG NICHOLLS (1906-1988) / Letter to the Editor
  • YIRRKALA PEOPLE / Yirrkala Bark Petition
  • NARRITJIN MAYMURU (c. 1916-1981) / Letter to Mr H.E. Giese, Director of Aboriginal Welfare, NT
  • VINCENT LINGIARI (1919-1988) / Gurindji Petition to Lord Casey, Governor General
  • JOE TIMBERY (1912-1978) / The Boomerang Racket
  • CHARLES PERKINS (1936-2000) / Letter to the Editor
  • JACK DAVIS (1917-2000) / The First-born
  • The Black Tracker
  • Warru
  • Integration
  • Walker
  • From No Sugar
  • JOHN A. NEWFONG (1943-1999) / To Number One Fella Big White Boss
  • GERRY BOSTOCK (b. 1942) / From Here Comes the Nigger
  • MONICA CLARE (1924-1973) / From Karobran
  • KEVIN GILBERT (1933-1993) / People Are Legends
  • From The Cherry Pickers
  • Me and Jackomari Talkin' About Land Rights
  • Redfern
  • Tree
  • Speech at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra
  • Song of Dreamtime
  • LIONEL FOGARTY (b. 1958) / Shields Strong, Nulla Nullas Alive
  • Decorative Rasp, Weaved Roots
  • Ecology
  • For I Come--Death in Custody
  • Kath Walker
  • Dulpai--Ila Ngari Kim Mo-Man
  • Alcheringa
  • BRUCE PASCOE (b. 1947) / The Slaughters of the Bulumwaal Butcher
  • IDA WEST (1919-2003) / From Pride Against Prejudice
  • ERIC WILLMOT (b. 1936) / From Pemulwuy
  • GLENYSE WARD (b. 1949) / From Wandering Girl
  • SALLY MORGAN (b. 1951) / From My Place
  • PAT TORRES (b. 1956) / Gurrwayi Gurrwayi, The Rain Bird
  • Wangkaja, The Mangrove Crab
  • RUBY LANGFORD GINIBI (b. 1934) / From Don't Take Your Love to Town
  • BURNUM BURNUM (1936-1997) / The Burnum Burnum Declaration
  • ERROL WEST (1947-2001) / 'Sitting, wondering, do I have a place here?'
  • GALARRWUY YUNUPINGU (b. 1948) / Barunga Statement
  • BILL NEIDJIE (c. 1913-2002) / Ahh ... Bush-Honey There!
  • BOB RANDALL (b. 1934) / Brown Skin Baby
  • SAM WATSON (b. 1952) / From The Kadaitcha Sung
  • GRAEME DIXON (b. 1955) / Six Feet of Land Rights
  • Holocaust Island
  • ARCHIE ROACH (b. 1955) / Took the Children Away
  • JIMMY CHI (b. 1948) / From Bran Nue Dae
  • MANDAWUY YUNUPINGU (b. 1956) / Treaty
  • JIMMY PIKE (c. 1940-2002) / From Yinti
  • PHILIP McLAREN (b. 1943) / From Sweet Water ... Stolen Land
  • KEV CARMODY (b. 1946) / From Little Things Big Things Grow
  • PATRICK DODSON (b. 1948) / Welcome Speech to Conference on the Position of Indigenous People in National Constitutions
  • MARCIA LANGTON (b. 1951) / From 'Well, I Heard It on the Radio and I Saw It on the Television ...'
  • RITA HUGGINS (1921-1996) and JACKIE HUGGINS (b. 1956) / From Auntie Rita
  • JESSIE LENNON (c. 1925-2000) / From And I Always Been Moving!
  • ROMAINE MORETON (b. 1969) / Genocide is Never Justified
  • Don't Let It Make You Over
  • I Shall Surprise You By My Will
  • HERB WHARTON (b. 1936) / Boat People--Big Trial
  • DORIS PILKINGTON (b. 1937) / From Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
  • ALF TAYLOR (b. 1947) / The Wool Pickers
  • LISA BELLEAR (1961-2006) / Women's Liberation
  • Woman of the Dreaming
  • Urbanised Reebocks
  • Taxi
  • MICK DODSON (b. 1950) / We All Bear the Cost if Apology is Not Paid
  • ALEXIS WRIGHT (b. 1950) / From Plains of Promise
  • From Carpentaria
  • MELISSA LUCASHENKO (b. 1967) / From Steam Pigs
  • JOHN MUK MUK BURKE (b. 1946) / A Poem for Gran
  • JENNIFER MARTINIELLO (b. 1949) / Uluru by Champagne
  • Emily Kngwarreye
  • KENNY LAUGHTON (b. 1950) / The Tunnel Rats of Phuoc Tuy
  • KIM SCOTT (b. 1957) / From Benang
  • BARBARA NICHOLSON (b. 1935) / The Bastards
  • RICHARD FRANKLAND (b. 1963) / Two World One
  • KERRY REED-GILBERT (b. 1956) / Let's Get Physical
  • VIVIENNE CLEVEN (b. 1968) / From Bitin' Back
  • NOEL PEARSON (b. 1965) / The Need for Intolerance
  • WESLEY ENOCH (b. 1969) / From Black Medea
  • SAMUEL WAGAN WATSON (b. 1972) / Recipe for Metropolis Brisbane
  • For the Wake and Skeleton Dance
  • White Stucco Dreaming
  • Cheap White-goods at the Dreamtime Sale
  • DENNIS McDERMOTT (b. 1946) / Dorothy's Skin
  • LARISSA BEHRENDT (b. 1969) / From Home
  • STEPHEN HAGAN (b. 1959) / From The N Word
  • JIM EVERETT (b. 1942) / planegarrartoothenar
  • TONY BIRCH (b. 1957) / The True History of Beruk
  • TERRI JANKE (b. 1966) / Exotica
  • JARED THOMAS (b. 1976) / The Healing Tree
  • TARA JUNE WINCH (b. 1983) / From Swallow the Air Glossary
  • Selected Reading
  • Sources and Permissions
  • Index.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Publisher's summary
A rich collection of writing - poetry, prose, and drama - from some of the greatest Australian Aboriginal authors.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Bibliographic information

Publication date
2008
Title variation
Australian Aboriginal literature
ISBN
9780773534599 (pbk.)
0773534598(pbk.)
0773534598

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