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Table of Contents

Preface to the 2004 Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Australia's Fourth World Literature

1. From Depression to War

2. Popular Perceptions of an Unpopular People, 1929-1945

3. World War II and the Assimilation Era: A Self-Destructive Doctrine

4. The Literary Perception, 1945-1961

5. Progress and Frustrated Expectations: The Era Since 1961

6. Views of Australian History in Aboriginal Literature

7. Sex and Violence in the Black Australian Novel

8. The Poetry of Politics: Australian Aboriginal Verse

9. Aboriginality and Black Australian Drama

10. Conclusion: Black Words on White Pages

List of Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index