How lovely it would've been, instead, for the publishing industry, with or
without the assistance of government money, to place basement-cheap
pamphlets of the poetry and political thoughts of _all_ Australians (far and
near-native) in local bookstores throughout the country, with accompanying
handout bibliographies for those wishing to look further into the dynamics
and history of the poets and their contexts.
Barring that, well, I'd have to go with the Eminent Mole: "a horse and a
chicken walk into a bar ......." and Martin Dolan's "ba-da-boom": "The
barman says 'You should have ducked'..."
Judy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Duemer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:57 AM
Subject: Re: Macquaire PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature
> What do you say, Judy? "Regurgitated pabulum"? Or do some anthologies have
> social & cultural uses that go beyond the merely personal?
>
> jd
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:39 AM, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> For those unhappy few who don't read my blog, I will post this heralding
>> of
>> an important anthology here as well as there:
>>
>> A groundbreaking collection of work from some of the great Australian
>> Aboriginal writers, the *Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal
>> Literature*offers a rich panorama of over 200 years of Aboriginal
>> culture, history and
>> life.
>>
>> From Bennelong's 1796 letter to contemporary creative writers, Anita
>> Heiss
>> and Peter Minter have selected work that represents the range and depth
>> of
>> Aboriginal writing in English. The anthology includes journalism,
>> petitions
>> and political letters from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
>> as
>> well as major works that reflect the blossoming of Aboriginal poetry,
>> prose
>> and drama from the mid-twentieth century onwards. Literature has been
>> used
>> as a powerful political tool by Aboriginal people in a political system
>> which renders them largely voiceless. These works chronicle the ongoing
>> suffering of dispossession, but also the resilience of Aboriginal people
>> across the country, and the hope and joy in their lives.
>>
>> With some of the best, most distinctive writing produced in Australia,
>> this
>> anthology is invaluable for anyone interested in Aboriginal writing and
>> culture.
>>
>> *This volume is extremely significant from an Indigenous cultural
>> perspective, containing many works that afford the reader a treasured
>> insight into the Indigenous cultural world of Australia.* - From the
>> foreword by *Mick Dodson*
>>
>> The Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature is published as part
>> of
>> the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature project.
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrew
>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
> Weblog: sharpsand.net
>
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