People of the Dreamtime
Hyland House $9.95 hb, 104 pp
Literary Studies
Narrative as Verse
by M.J.E. King-Boyes •
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.
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