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'FROM THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY novels of Rosa Praed well into the twentieth century and beyond, Aboriginal people have been scrutinised and written about by outsiders in terms both simplistic and racist. Such fiction, especially in the era when the novel was about as powerful as Netflix is today, initially served an economic and social as well as a literary purpose.' (Introduction)
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Epigraph: ‘Arriving at the entrance to the yard, I met a white object, which proved to be a Kanaka in his Sunday clothes.’
Carl Lumholtz, Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years’ Travel in Australia and Camp Life with the Aborigines of Queensland, 1889
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https://www.griffithreview.com/articles/the-true-hero-stuff/
'The True Hero Stuff' Blak Folk in Early Queensland Fiction
Griffith Review
Subjects:
- Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land : A Story of Australian Life 1915 single work novel
- My Australian Girlhood : Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life 1902 single work autobiography
- Landtakers : The Story of an Epoch 1934 single work novel
- The Fortunes of Richard Mahony 1917 single work novel
- Queensland Writers 1959 single work review
- Adventures in Queensland 1879 single work novel
- Queensland,
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