Dreams and nightmares of a white Australia : representing Aboriginal assimilation in the mid-twentieth century /
Elder, Catriona.
New York : Peter Lang,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257).
Writing a story of mixed-race relations in 'white Australia' -- Mapping a 'white Australia': political and government responses to the 'half-caste' problem -- Blood: elimination, assimilation and the white Australian nation in E.V. Timms' The Scarlet Frontier -- Making families white: indigenous mothers, families and children in Gwen Meredith's Blue Hills: the Ternna-Boolla Story -- Haunted homes: children, desire and dispossession in Helen Heney's The Leaping Blaze -- Scopic pleasure and fantasy: visualising assimilation and the half-caste in Leonard Mann's Venus Half-Caste -- Dead centre: frontier relations in Olaf Fuhen's Naked Under Capricorn.
Australian fiction
Aboriginal Australians in literature.
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.