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Issue Details: First known date: 1962... 1962 The Leaping Blaze
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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1962 .
      Extent: 272p.
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      • Dedication: To Hilda Woodhouse

      • Epigraph: 'A land of camps where seldom is sojourning, Where men like the dim fathers of our race, Halt for a time, and next day, unreturning, Fare ever on apace. Last night how many a leaping blaze affrighted the wailing birds of passage in their file; And dawn sees ashes dead and imprints whitened, Where men had dwelt awhile.' - T. W. Heney

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y separately published work icon Dreams and Nightmares of a White Australia : Representing Aboriginal Assimilation in the Mid-Twentieth Century Catriona Elder , Berne : Peter Lang , 2009 Z1613487 2009 multi chapter work criticism
y separately published work icon Dreams and Nightmares of a 'White Australia' : The Discourse of Assimilation in Selected Works of Fiction from the 1950s and 1960s Catriona Elder , Canberra : 1999 Z1301412 1999 single work thesis This thesis is an analysis of the production of assimilation discourse, in terms of Aboriginal people's and white people's social relations, in a small selection of popular fiction texts from the 1950s and 1960s. I situate these novels in the broader context of assimilation by also undertaking a reading of three official texts from a slightly earlier period. These texts together produce the ambivalent white Australian story of assimilation. They illuminate some of the key sites of anxiety in assimilation discourses: inter-racial sexual relationships, the white family, and children and young adults of mixed heritage and land ownership. The crux of my argument is that in the 1950s and early 1960s the dominant cultural imagining of Australia was as a white nation. In white discourses of assimilation to fulfil the dream of whiteness, the Aboriginal people - the not-white - had to be included in or eliminated from this imagined white community. Fictional stories of assimilation were a key site for the representation of this process, that is, they produced discourses of 'assimilation colonization'. The focus for this process were Aboriginal people of mixed ancestry, who came to be represented as 'the half-caste' in assimilation discourse. The novels I analyse work as 'conduct books'. They aim to shape white reactions to the inclusion of Aboriginal people, in particular the half-caste, into 'white Australia'. This inclusion, assimilation, was an ambivalent project - both pleasurable and unsettling - pleasurable because it worked to legitimate white colonization (Aboriginal presence as erased) and unsettling because it challenged the idea of a pure 'white Australia'. (Author abstract from Australian Digital Thesis Program)
Dark Deeds Nancy Cato , 1963 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March vol. 2 no. 5 1963; (p. 86)
— Review of The Leaping Blaze Helen Heney , 1962 single work novel
Novel Situation Patricia Rolfe , 1963 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 26 January vol. 85 no. 4328 1963; (p. 14-15)
Back to the Plot Nancy Keesing , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 15 December vol. 85 no. 4321 1962; (p. 40)
— Review of The Well Dressed Explorer Thea Astley , 1962 single work novel ; The Leaping Blaze Helen Heney , 1962 single work novel
Back to the Plot Nancy Keesing , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 15 December vol. 85 no. 4321 1962; (p. 40)
— Review of The Well Dressed Explorer Thea Astley , 1962 single work novel ; The Leaping Blaze Helen Heney , 1962 single work novel
Dark Deeds Nancy Cato , 1963 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March vol. 2 no. 5 1963; (p. 86)
— Review of The Leaping Blaze Helen Heney , 1962 single work novel
y separately published work icon Dreams and Nightmares of a 'White Australia' : The Discourse of Assimilation in Selected Works of Fiction from the 1950s and 1960s Catriona Elder , Canberra : 1999 Z1301412 1999 single work thesis This thesis is an analysis of the production of assimilation discourse, in terms of Aboriginal people's and white people's social relations, in a small selection of popular fiction texts from the 1950s and 1960s. I situate these novels in the broader context of assimilation by also undertaking a reading of three official texts from a slightly earlier period. These texts together produce the ambivalent white Australian story of assimilation. They illuminate some of the key sites of anxiety in assimilation discourses: inter-racial sexual relationships, the white family, and children and young adults of mixed heritage and land ownership. The crux of my argument is that in the 1950s and early 1960s the dominant cultural imagining of Australia was as a white nation. In white discourses of assimilation to fulfil the dream of whiteness, the Aboriginal people - the not-white - had to be included in or eliminated from this imagined white community. Fictional stories of assimilation were a key site for the representation of this process, that is, they produced discourses of 'assimilation colonization'. The focus for this process were Aboriginal people of mixed ancestry, who came to be represented as 'the half-caste' in assimilation discourse. The novels I analyse work as 'conduct books'. They aim to shape white reactions to the inclusion of Aboriginal people, in particular the half-caste, into 'white Australia'. This inclusion, assimilation, was an ambivalent project - both pleasurable and unsettling - pleasurable because it worked to legitimate white colonization (Aboriginal presence as erased) and unsettling because it challenged the idea of a pure 'white Australia'. (Author abstract from Australian Digital Thesis Program)
y separately published work icon Dreams and Nightmares of a White Australia : Representing Aboriginal Assimilation in the Mid-Twentieth Century Catriona Elder , Berne : Peter Lang , 2009 Z1613487 2009 multi chapter work criticism
Novel Situation Patricia Rolfe , 1963 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 26 January vol. 85 no. 4328 1963; (p. 14-15)
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