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Post-colonial Literature for Children EDU32PLC Week 5 - Lecture 9 European voices in Aboriginal History: Telling the Big Picture © La Trobe University, David Beagley 2005

References Foster, J., Finnis, E.J. and Nimon, M. (1995) Aboriginal Australia: a century of attitudinal change. in Australian Children’s Literature: an exploration of genre and theme. Wagga: CIS, Charles Sturt University Ellingsen, P. (2002) Australian Rules. The Age. 10 August. Saturday Extra: 1-4 Jarman, M. (1999) Postcolonialism and language use in Australian Children’s Literature: a case study of The Children of Mirrabooka. in Something to Crow About: new perspectives in Literature for Young people. eds. Susan Clancy and David Gilbey. Wagga Wagga: CIS, CSU

Deadly, Unna? Focus is on the injustices of the present, rather than events of the past Modern Europeans are active participants in the story … … especially as it is based on real events. This makes them active participants in both the positive and negative aspects of the situation This has also led to considerable controversy as different people claim ownership of the events and the right to tell (or not tell) the story

Deadly, Unna? Several themes in European story Interpretations of right and wrong - breaking & entering vs shooting, parent/child relations, Separation of communities, unless convenient for dominant group - cf. Apartheid Ultimate success or failure determined in European terms, by European values Several themes in Aboriginal story Dispossession, racism, colonization Respect for dead and family Authority of community over individual

Deadly, Unna? Book -> Movie Australian Rules: The issue of ownership Is it Gwynne’s story (based on his personal experiences) or is it the story of the community who lost someone? Consultation or creative integrity Or is it simply a work of imagination - a fiction? Who can control a work of fiction? How much of a fiction is still fact?

Both novels Children of Mirrabooka and Deadly, Unna? Is each a European story or an Aboriginal story? Is there a difference?

European or Aboriginal? Either or neither or both? Ernie dances to the didgeridoo and My Place European? Aboriginal? Multicultural? Australian? Consider the representation of the various groups. How are they: Identified? Differentiated?

Ernie dances to the didgeridoo Part of a larger series about children : Celeste sails to Spain, Clive eats alligators, Rosie sips spiders, Tessa snaps snakes, When Frank was four Structured as an informative sequence Begins from the European Does not label any group Maintains the positive younger reader/childhood approach by emphasising identifiable activities Introduces new details as an extension of the familiar

My Place One off production for Bicentennial in 1788 Structured as an informative sequence Begins from the European Labels each group in context Maintains the positive younger reader/childhood approach by emphasising identifiable activities Introduces new details as an extension of the familiar