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'The theme of land and country is resonant in Australian children’s literature with Aboriginal subject matter. The textual and visual narratives present counter-discourse strategies to challenge the colonial ideology and dominant valuation of Australian landscape. This paper begins by examining the colonial history of seeing Australia as an “empty space”, naming, and appropriating the land by erasing Aboriginal presence from the land. Then it explores the conceptual re-investment of Aboriginal connections to country in the representation of Australian landscape, as reflected and re-imagined in fiction and non-fiction for child readers. Thereby, as the paper suggests, a shared and reconciliatory space can at least discursively be negotiated and envisioned. ' (Publication abstract)
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https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/2175-8026.2016v69n2p193/31872
Australian Children’s Literature and Postcolonialism : A Review Essay
Ilha Do Desterro : A Journal of English Language
Subjects:
- Crow Country : Treading Ambiguous Pathways 2011 single work autobiography
- The Biggest Estate on Earth : How Aborigines Made Australia 2011 single work non-fiction
- Roughtail : The Dreaming of the Roughtail Lizard and Other Stories Told by the Kukatja 1990 selected work children's fiction
- Maybe Tomorrow 1998 single work autobiography
- Maralinga : The Anangu Story 2009 single work prose
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