Imagining Indigenality in Romance and Fantasy Fiction for Children
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2003vol13no3art1284Keywords:
romance fiction, fantasy fiction, cultural appropriation, indigenisation, Australian Aboriginal culture, Australian Aboriginal traditionsAbstract
Romance and fantasy fiction by non-Indigenous authors from the nineteenth through to the twentieth century positions non-Indigenous readers as the natural, normal inhabitants of the Australian nation through strategies of appropriation and indigenisation. At the same time, these narratives exclude Indigenous children from the category 'Australian children' and construct narrators as experts on Aboriginal culture and traditions.
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