From Colonial Superstition to the Hairyman: Aboriginality and the Politics of Race

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  • Juilet O'Conor State Library of Victoria, Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2010vol20no2art1143

Keywords:

Australian Aboriginal people, Indigenous protagonists, colonisation

Abstract

The misconceptions of Indigenous incapacity and pastoral welfarism evident in the mid century texts are reversed by the end of the century and the texts that have made the same possible are discussed. Characterization of the Indigenous protagonists in each publication reveals much about changing perceptions of Aboriginality.

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Author Biography

  • Juilet O'Conor, State Library of Victoria, Australia

    Juliet O’Conor is the Children’s Literature Research Librarian at the State Library of Victoria. She is responsible for over 100,000 children’s books published between the sixteenth and twenty first centuries. Her ongoing doctoral study at Deakin University examines twentieth century Indigenous Australian traditional story for children.

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O’Conor, J. (2006) ‘Postcolonial transformation and traditional Australian Indigenous story’, Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature 16, 2, 132-137.

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2010-07-01

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How to Cite

“From Colonial Superstition to the Hairyman: Aboriginality and the Politics of Race” (2010) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 20(2), pp. 11–22. doi:10.21153/pecl2010vol20no2art1143.

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