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Australian Aboriginal literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary studies, now receives both national and international attention. Not only has the number of published texts by contemporary Australian Aboriginals risen sharply, but scholars and publishers have also recently begun recovering earlier published and unpublished Indigenous works. Writing by Australian Aboriginals is making a decisive impression in fiction, autobiography, biography, poetry, film, drama, and music, and has recently been anthologized in Oceana and North America. Until now, however, there has been no comprehensive critical companion that contextualizes the Aboriginal canon for scholars, researchers, students, and general readers. This international collection of eleven original essays fills this gap by discussing crucial aspects of Australian Aboriginal literature and tracing the development of Aboriginal literacy from the oral tradition up until today, contextualizing the work of Aboriginal artists and writers and exploring aspects of Aboriginal life writing such as obstacles toward publishing, questions of editorial control (or the lack thereof), intergenerational and interracial collaborations combining oral history and life writing, and the pros and cons of translation into European languages. Contributors: Katrin Althans, Maryrose Casey, Danica Cerce, Stuart Cooke, Paula Anca Farca, Michael R. Griffiths, Oliver Haag, Martina Horakova, Jennifer Jones, Nicholas Jose, Andrew King, Jeanine Leane, Theodore F. Sheckels, Belinda Wheeler. Belinda Wheeler is Assistant Professor of English at Paine College, Augusta, Georgia.

Littérature australienne --- Australian literature --- Auteurs aborigènes d'Australie --- Histoire et critique. --- Aboriginal Australian authors --- History and criticism. --- English literature --- Aboriginal Canon. --- Australian Aboriginal Literature. --- Australian Aboriginal literature. --- Australian culture. --- Autobiography. --- Biography. --- Drama. --- Fiction. --- Film. --- Indigenous Works. --- Music. --- Poetry. --- Translation. --- cultural diversity. --- cultural heritage. --- indigenous writing. --- literary studies. --- literature anthology. --- oral tradition.

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In this book Brian Crow and Chris Banfield provide an introduction to post-colonial theatre by concentrating on the work of major dramatists from the Third World and subordinated cultures in the first world. Crow and Banfield consider the plays of such writers as Wole Soyinka and Athol Fugard and his collaborators from Africa; Derek Walcott from the West Indies; August Wilson and Jack Davis, who write from and about the experience of Black communities in the USA and Australia respectively; and Badal Sircar and Girish Karnad from India. Although these dramatists reflect diverse cultures and histories, they share the common condition of cultural subjection or oppression, which has shaped their theatres. Each chapter contains an informative list of primary source material and further reading about the dramatists. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of theatre and cultural history.

Sociology of literature --- English literature --- Drama --- Empires --- Imperia --- Imperialism --- Imperialisme --- Impérialisme --- Onderdrukking (Psychologie) --- Oppression (Psychologie) --- Oppression (Psychology) --- Verdrukking (Psychologie) --- Literature and society --- Imperialism. --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- Littérature et société --- Oppression --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Oppression (Psychology). --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- Littérature et société --- Impérialisme --- History and criticism --- Developing countries --- Literature and society - Developing countries. --- Walcott, Derek --- Criminal psychology --- Personality --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Colonialism --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Criticism --- Social aspects --- Aboriginal literature --- Australian literature --- Caribbean literature --- Davis (jack) --- Fugard (athol) --- Karnad (girish) --- Post-colonial theatre --- Sircar (badal) --- Soyinka (wole), 1934 --- -Wilson (august)