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The Jindyworobak Anthology, published annually from 1938-1953, was initiated by South Australian poet Rex Ingamells. It published poetry that set out to avoid European influences and relate more closely to the Australian environment, history and traditions, including those of the Aboriginal people, searching in this way for an authentic expression of Australian culture. The name 'Jindyworobak' was taken from the glossary of James Devaney's The Vanished Tribes (1929), as an Aboriginal word meaning 'to annex', or 'join'. Ingamells adopted it for the movement as symbolic of the joining of 'white' and 'black' culture. The first issues of the Anthology, edited by Ingamells himself, did much to set the direction of the Jindyworobak movement and rapidly attracted contributors. However, the movement was waning by the nineteen-fifties and the 1953 Anthology was the last issued.
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'Fearful Affinity' : Jindyworobak Primitivism
2014
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— Appears in: Adelaide : A Literary City 2014; (p. 125-146) -
Adelaide and the Country : The Literary Dimension
2014
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criticism
— Appears in: Adelaide : A Literary City 2014; (p. 111-123) -
Writing from the Periphery : The Haunted Landscapes of James McAuley
2014
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criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 1 2014; -
Thoughts on Aboriginal Literature
1985
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criticism
— Appears in: The Aboriginal Child at School , February/March vol. 13 no. 1 1985; (p. 31-52) -
Preface
1953
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— Appears in: Jindyworobak Anthology, 1953 1953; (p. 3)
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'Twas Ever Thus
1948
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— Appears in: Jindyworobak Review, 1938-1948 1948; (p. 39-42) -
Something More than an Editor's Note
1941
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— Appears in: Jindyworobak Anthology, 1941 1941; (p. 4-9) -
Jindyworobak
1945
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— Appears in: Jindyworobak Anthology, 1945 1945; (p. 63-66) -
Notes
1946
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— Appears in: Jindyworobak Anthology, 1946 1946; (p. 68) -
Foreward
1947
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— Appears in: Jindyworobak Anthology, 1947 1947; (p. 7-10)
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