Reading race, aboriginality in Australian children`s literature

Bradford, Clare 2001, Reading race, aboriginality in Australian children`s literature Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria.

Title	Reading race, aboriginality in Australian children`s literature
Author(s)	Bradford, Clare
Publication date	2001
Total pages	283
Publisher	Melbourne University Press
Place of Publication	Carlton, Victoria
Keyword(s)	Race in literature Aboriginal Australians in literature Children's literature Australian -- history and criticism Racism in literature Australia -- race relations -- In literature
Summary	This text looks at the ways in which Australia's indigenous peoples have been, and continue to be, represented in books for children. These varying representations have helped to colour the attitudes, beliefs and assumptions of different generations of Australians.
Notes	1. Colonial discourse and its fictions -- 2. Religious discourses and aboriginality -- 3. Intersecting discourses: gender and race in children's books -- 4. Speaking for the aborigines: knowledge, power and aboriginalism -- 5. White on black in criticism and fiction: contemporary dilemmas -- 6. Indigenous voices in children's literature -- 7. Towards reconciliation? Crosscultural encounters in the 1990s -- 8. Narratives of identity and history in settler colony texts.
ISBN	0522849547 9780522849547
Language	eng
Field of Research	200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
HERDC Research category	A1 Books - authored - research
Copyright notice	©2001, Melbourne University Press
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30000380

Document type:	Book
Collection:	School of Literary and Communication Studies

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