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Narrative as Verse

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May 1979, no. 10

People of the Dreamtime by Alan Marshall

Hyland House $9.95 hb, 104 pp

Narrative as Verse

by
May 1979, no. 10

The functions of literature in a society are many and varied and often there is a good correlation between what a people’s literature says about them and what they say about themselves. This is certainly true of the traditional literature of the Aborigines of Australia as exemplified in their myths and legends and of the traditional pattern of life which, laid down in The Dreaming, was followed so well until the European settlement and the resultant culture clash.

People of the Dreamtime

People of the Dreamtime

by Alan Marshall

Hyland House $9.95 hb, 104 pp

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