Table of Contents

Foreword - Nichola Jose
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Emerging Canon - Belinda Wheeler
Chronology
Indigenous Life Writing: Rethinking Poetics and Practice - Michael R. Griffiths
Australian Aboriginal Life Writers and Their Editors: Cross-Cultural Collaboration, Authorial Intention, and the Impact of Editorial Choices - Jennifer Jones
Contemporary Life Writing: Inscribing Double Voice in Intergenerational Collaborative Life-Writing Projects - Martina Horakova
European Translations of Australian Aboriginal Texts - Danica Cerce and Oliver Haag
Tracing a Trajectory from Songpoetry to Contemporary Aboriginal Poetry - Stuart Cooke
Rites/Rights/Writes of Passage: Identity Construction in Australian Aboriginal Young Adult Fiction - Jeanine Leane
Humor in Contemporary Aboriginal Adult Fiction - Paula Anca Farca
White Shadows: The Gothic Tradition in Australian Aboriginal Literature - Katrin Althans
Bold, Black, and Brilliant: Aboriginal Australian Drama - Maryrose Casey
The "Stolen Generations" in Feature Film: The Approach of Aboriginal Director Rachel Perkins and Others - Theodore F. Scheckels
A History of Popular Indigenous Music - Andrew King
Notes on the Contributors
Note on the Cover Artist
Index

Reviews

[The editor] and the contributors have used the book's position as one of the only international introductory texts on Australian Aboriginal literature as a gateway to understanding Aboriginal output more broadly. . . .
*WASAFIRI*

[C]hallenges the very notion of literature itself. . . . [I]nsist[s] on the literary quality and seriousness of Australian Aboriginal texts. . . . [H]ighly recommended. . . . [F]ills a large gap in Asia-Pacific literary and cultural studies. It will be of benefit to teachers and students, artists and critics, scholars and general readers, the indigenous and non-indigenous.
*PACIFIC ASIA INQUIRY*

This comprehensive anthology gives students and beginning researchers a clear overview of the issues at play in indigenous Australian literature today. . . . Handsomely produced and well indexed, this volume is a substantial contribution to the literature. . . . Highly recommended.
*CHOICE*