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Australian Aboriginal Literary Legacy: Past and Present Perspectives

Explore the evolving portrayal of Indigenous Australians in literature, from early colonial views to modern Aboriginal writers and activists. Learn about prominent figures like David Unaipon, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, and Sally Morgan, who have shaped Australian literary history. Discover the rich storytelling traditions and struggles for recognition faced by Indigenous writers. Delve into the complex narratives that challenge traditional perceptions and celebrate Indigenous cultures and voices within the Australian literary landscape.

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Australian Aboriginal Literary Legacy: Past and Present Perspectives

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  1. AUSTRALIA Aboriginal writers and themes

  2. .William Dampier wrote of the "natives of New Holland" as being "barbarous savages", but by the time of Captain James Cook and First Fleet marine WatkinTench (the era of Jean-Jacques Rousseau), accounts of Aborigines were more sympathetic and romantic: "these people may truly be said to be in the pure state of nature, and may appear to some to be the most wretched upon the earth; but in reality they are far happier than ... we Europeans", wrote Cook in his journal on 23 August 1770.

  3. David Unaipon • David Unaipon(1872–1967) provided the first accounts of Aboriginal mythology written by an Aboriginal: Legendary Tales of the Aborigines; he is known as the first Aboriginal author. OodgerooNoonuccal (1920–1995) was a famous Aboriginal poet, writer and rights activist credited with publishing the first Aboriginal book of verse: We Are Going (1964).[5] Sally Morgan's novel My Place was considered a breakthrough memoir in terms of bringing indigenous stories to wider notice. Leading Aboriginal activists Marcia Langton (First Australians, 2008) and Noel Pearson ("Up From the Mission", 2009) are active contemporary contributors to Australian literature.

  4. WatkinTench: a captain of the marines on the First Fleet to arrive in 1788. In 1819, poet, explorer, journalist and politician WilliamWentworth published the first book written by an Australian: A Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and Its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land, With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America, in which he advocated an elected assembly for New South Wales, trial by jury and settlement of Australia by free emigrants rather than convicts at Southern Land.

  5. GOODBYE • BY DENNIS AND KOSTAS

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