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World War II and the Assimilation Era : A Self-Destructive Doctrine single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 World War II and the Assimilation Era : A Self-Destructive Doctrine
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This chapter examines the gap between policy and practice during the period 1945-1961. It emphasises the attempted assimilation of the 1950s by highlighting Aboriginal activity which, to a large extent, traces its origins to World War II.

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    y separately published work icon Black Words, White Page : Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988 Adam Shoemaker , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1989 Z106800 1989 single work criticism (taught in 1 units)

    Shoemaker's primary concern is to look at the beginning of 'black people's' writing in Australia since the 1960s and focus on the nascent literary canon emerging through Aboriginal writing. Shoemaker moves the readership through non-Aboriginal authors such as Katharine Susannah Prichard (1929) and Xavier Herbert (1938) in a chapter entitled 'Popular Perceptions of Unpopular People to Progress and Frustrated Expectations: The Era Since 1961'. Where Aboriginal writing begins, for Shoemaker's purposes, is an area of literary production he describes as 'fourth world literature'.

         St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1989     pg. 63-77
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Subjects:
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
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