AustLit
Issue Details:
First known date:
1998...
vol.
72
no.
3
Summer
1998
of
World Literature Today
est. 1977
World Literature Today
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* Contents derived from the 1998 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Untitled,
single work
review
— Review of Poems, 1980-1994 1997 selected work poetry ; (p. 681) -
World Literature in Review : Australia.,
single work
review
— Review of Plains of Promise 1997 single work novel ;(p. 681-682)'With her first novel, Plains of Promise, Alexis Wright makes an impressive debut. The story of three generations of Aboriginal women, the book is a recent entry in the University of Queensland Press's Black Australian Writers Series, begun in 1990, which describes itself as publishing "award winners and other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors." Although the series is currently negotiating the crisis of identity and authenticity which has recently convulsed the whole arena of Black Australian writing, its value to the Aboriginal literary community remains unimpeachable.' (Introduction)
