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'This paper examines the effects of curatorial processes used to develop children's literature digital research projects in the bibliographic database AustLit. Through AustLit's emphasis on contextualising individual works within cultural, biographical, and critical spaces, Australia's literary history is comprehensively represented in a unique digital humanities space. Within AustLit is BlackWords, a project dedicated to recording Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, publishing, and literary cultural history, including children's and young adult texts. Children's literature has received significant attention in AustLit (and BlackWords) over the last decade through three projects that are documented in this paper. The curation of this data highlights the challenges in presenting ‘national’ literatures in countries where minority voices were (and perhaps continue to be) repressed and unseen. This paper employs a ‘resourceful reading’ approach – both close and distant reading methods – to trace the complex and ever-evolving definition of ‘Australian children's literature’.'
Source: EUP.
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- The Legends of Moonie Jarl 1964 selected work children's fiction
- Reading by Numbers : Recalibrating the Literary Field 2012 single work criticism
- The Prince of the Totem : A Simple Black Tale for Clever White Children 1933 single work children's fiction
- Australian Jungle Stories : Legends of the Aborigines : Book No. 1 1944 selected work children's fiction
- Fairy Tales Told in the Bush 1911 selected work children's fiction
- Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing 2011-2012 website bibliography
- BlackWords : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers and Storytellers 2007 website bibliography
- A Bibliography of Australian Children's Books 1970 single work bibliography
- Children's Literature Digital Resources 2008 website archive bibliography
- Children's Literature and the Environment 2015 website bibliography