Where To?: An Indian Perspective on Australian Aboriginal Poetry in English

I would like to begin this paper by quoting two well-known Australian Aboriginal poems in English. The first one, "My Other," a work of Anita Heiss, was published in 2006, and the second one, "The Unhappy Race," a work of Oodgeroo, was published in 1964 in what is considered to b...

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Published in:Antipodes (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) New York, N.Y.), 2014-12, Vol.28 (2), p.367-378
Main Author: Kar, Angshuman
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aboriginal Australian authors
Aboriginal Australian poetry
Aboriginal Australians
Assimilation
Attitudes
Australian literature
Criticism and interpretation
Cross-cultural studies
Cultural identity
Davis, Jack (1917-2000)
Gender identity
Indian literature
Indigenous peoples
Literary criticism
Native literature
Native peoples
Parliamentary system
Poetic themes
Poetry
Poets
Point of view
Political aspects
Sentence structure
Shoemaking
Social aspects
Teachers
White people
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Summary:I would like to begin this paper by quoting two well-known Australian Aboriginal poems in English. The first one, "My Other," a work of Anita Heiss, was published in 2006, and the second one, "The Unhappy Race," a work of Oodgeroo, was published in 1964 in what is considered to be the first Aboriginal book of poetry, 'We Are Going'. Before we proceed further let's have look at these two poems.
ISSN:0893-5580
2331-9089
DOI:10.13110/antipodes.28.2.0367