Crisis and Creativity in the New Literatures in EnglishGeoffrey V. Davis, Hena Maes-Jelinek Rodopi, 1990 - 529 pages |
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... play in the same year . In 1988 a new play Barungin was premiered at the Festival of Perth . It explores the highly controversial issue of the alarmingly high number of Aboriginal deaths in police custody . It again fuses domestic and ...
... play in the same year . In 1988 a new play Barungin was premiered at the Festival of Perth . It explores the highly controversial issue of the alarmingly high number of Aboriginal deaths in police custody . It again fuses domestic and ...
Page 408
... play from which all the historical material radiates and on which it ultimately reconverges . - The suburban existence of Alec Yorlah , an Aboriginal labourer and his de facto wife Rosie is both depressingly familiar in its mundaneness ...
... play from which all the historical material radiates and on which it ultimately reconverges . - The suburban existence of Alec Yorlah , an Aboriginal labourer and his de facto wife Rosie is both depressingly familiar in its mundaneness ...
Page 413
... plays , who are almost without exception resilient , adaptable , keen to learn , and not totally dismissive of European ways , Davis sees women as destined to play a role , if not the dominant one , in revitalizing Aboriginal culture ...
... plays , who are almost without exception resilient , adaptable , keen to learn , and not totally dismissive of European ways , Davis sees women as destined to play a role , if not the dominant one , in revitalizing Aboriginal culture ...
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Mudrooroo NAROGIN Colin JOHNSON | 3 |
Wilson HARRIS | 9 |
Edward Kamau BRATHWAITE | 23 |
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