- Title
- Re-reading representations of indigenality in Australian children's literature: a history
- Creator
- Collins-Gearing, Brooke
- Relation
- The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education Vol. 35, Issue 0, p. 61-67
- Relation
- http://www.atsis.uq.edu.au/ajie/index.html?page=56863&pid=33821
- Publisher
- University of Queensland, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2006
- Description
- Australian children's literature has a history of excluding Indigenous child readers and positioning non-Indigenous readers as the subject. Rather than portray such literature, particularly before the 1950s, as simply racist or stereotypical, I argue that it is important for teachers, of all students, to help readers understand how nationalist or white Australian myths were constructed on Indigenous land and knowledges.
- Subject
- children's literature; Australia; Indigenous Australians; stereotypes
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/927752
- Identifier
- uon:10236
- Identifier
- ISSN:1326-0111
- Language
- eng
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