Acknowledgements
Abstract
摘要
A List of Name Equivalents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Dreaming as Religious Identity
Chapter 2 Bio-Writing as Gender Identity
Chapter 3 Native Title as Political Identity
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix 1 “Aboriginal Charter of Rights”
Appendix 2 An Index of Criticism of Australian Aboriginal
Literature
Notes
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1.The Summary of the Development of ContemporaryAustralian
Aboriginal Literaturea
a.The Paternalism in the First Wave
The father of Australian Aboriginal literature is
DavidUnaiD0n(1872-1967),who is honored on the banknote of
50Australian dollars.The entire corpus of Unaipon’S written
workscombinCS the deceptive simplicity of the fable with the
spiritualdepth of rcligious verse;the apparent realism of
anthropologicalobserVation with the“surrealism”of Dreaming
narrative.AndwCaVing its way through all of Unaipon’s writing is a
highly-developed political and national consciousness on behalf
ofindigenous Australians as well as extremely clever deployment
ofhumot and insight.(Bennett 1998:334)
His literary achievements were mostly accomplished in
the1920s.Native Legends,his most important representative work,waS
Dublished 1929.But how can one justify a discussion ofUnaiDon in a
diSCussion of contemporary indigenous writing?Thereare a number of
answers to this question.One of the mostimportant being the fact
that Unaipon’s work is published anddiscussed more in the 1990s
than in any previous decades.BeingdepiCted 0n the new Australian$50
note released in 1955,hisiconiC Significance has also increased
dramatically’a trend furtherstrengthened by the widespread use of
Unaipon’s face in the printand television advertising.In one sense
all of David Unaipon’swriting Can be seen as petitioning the past
for long-delayedreC0gnition of his custodial role as a
storyteller.But petitioningwas by no means Unaipon’s only foray
into the literature ofentreaty.
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