Liesel Hermes: Louie Brown International Scholar
Spring 2012 - ENGL 3300 A - Wednesday 3:30pm - WH 254
Aboriginies in Australian Fiction: Reading List
Prichard, Katharine Susannah. Coonardoo. Angus & Robertson, 1998 (1st published 1925)
Mudrooroo. Wild Cat Falling. Angus & Robertson, 1992 (1st published 1965)
Morgan, Sally. My Place.Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1987
Pilkington, Doris. Rabbit Proof Fence. University of Queensland Press, 2000 (1st published 1996)
In a way, each text is a classic in Australian literature. Prichard's novel was the first novel to deal with an Aboriginal woman and her love for a white man and roused considerably controversy. Mudrooroo's novel was the first novel written by an Aboriginal author ever. Morgan's work is an autobiography that won high acclaim. The author, who is part Aboriginal, tries to find her own roots and that of her family. Pilkington's work is the true story of her own mother, who was a "stolen child" and who, together with a sister and a cousin, escaped from a Native Settlement near Perth WA and walked for around 1,000 miles back home to Jigalong in the northwest of WA. The story was filmed.
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Louie Brown International Scholar