Foreword: Mick Dodson
Preface: Nicholas Jose
List of Abbreviations
Introductory Essay on Aboriginal Literature: Anita Heiss and Peter
Minter
Literary works from authors including Bennelong, William Barak,
David Unaipon, Pearl Gibbs, Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal,
Charles Perkins, Jack Davis, Kevin Gilbert, Lionel Fogarty, Ruby
Langford Ginibi, Bob Randall, Jimmy Chi, Patrick Dodson, Marcia
Langton, Jackie Huggins, Lisa Bellear, Alexis Wright, Kim Scott,
Noel Pearson, Larissa Behrendt, Tony Birch, Tara June Winch
Glossary
Further Reading
Sources and Permissions
Index
ANITA HEISS is a member of the Wiradjuri nation of central NSW and
a writer, poet, activist, social commentator and academic. She is
author of Dhuuluu-Yala: Publishing Aboriginal literature, Who Am
I?: The diary of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937 and Am I Black Enough
for You?. She won the 2004 NSW Premier's History Award
(audio/visual) for Barani: The Aboriginal history of Sydney. She is
an Advocate for the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence.
Dr PETER MINTER is a leading Australian poet, editor and poetics
theorist. He shares English, Scottish and Aboriginal heritage, and
since 1992 has taught Aboriginal studies at the University of
Newcastle, the University of Western Sydney and the University of
Sydney. His books include blue grass and Empty Texas, which won The
Age Poetry Book of the Year Award, and his poetry is widely
published and regularly anthologised in Australia and
internationally. His editorial projects have included titles such
as Cordite, Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets, Meanjin,
Overland, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, the
Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature and The Literature
of Australia (Norton). He is a senior lecturer in English at the
University of Sydney.
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