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Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 The Character of Contact
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This chapter looks at the initial contact between Captain Cook and members of his official party and Australian Aboriginals of the Sydney region. Healy argues that literature has played both a reflective and constructive part in the development of Australia, and in the seeds of Cook's visit there were tensions of values which went to the heart of the new commonwealth. Literary representation is seen as part of the consciousness of white writers of Australian Aboriginals between 1770 and 1975.

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    y separately published work icon Literature and the Aborigine in Australia 1770- 1975 J. J. Healy , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1978 Z383631 1978 single work criticism An historical overview of the literary representations of Australian Aboriginals by white writers from first contact till the mid-1970s. The author looks at poetry and prose in historical sequence. The subject of the work deals with the efforts of white Australian writers to come to grips with Aboriginal Australians. The author argues that the interest in Australian Aboriginals as literary subjects is touched by an interest in themselves, in Australia itself as a land, and as a social-political structure. St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1989 pg. 4-25
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