The Dreamers - Jack Davis

Analysis
About the Author

General
Library Resources

Analysis

The future in black and white: Aboriginality in recent Australian drama Katherine Brisbane, publisher of Currency Press, discusses Aboriginal writing for the theatre.

About the Author

Davis's legacy lives on A tribute to Jack Davis. Wesley Enoch, The Age, Tuesday 21 March, 2000

Jack Davis Brief biography from the Ozlit Australian Writers' Database

Uncle Jack A tribute to Jack Davis. John Preston, The Age, Thursday 30 March 2000

General

Noongar language and literature A discussion of the literature of the Aboriginals of the south-west of Western Australia. Robyn McCarron, Span, 1993, No.36.

Library Resources

  Davis, Jack. The dreamers. Meanjin, 1984, vol.42 no.1, March : pp.45-48

  Indyk, Ivor. Assimilation or appropriation: uses of European literary forms in black Australian writing. Australian Literary Studies, 1992, vol.15 no.4, October : pp.249-260

  Shoemaker, Adam. Black words, white page : Aboriginal literature 1929-1988. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1989 : pp.127-158

  Strauss, Dagmar. Facing writers: Australia's leading writers talk with Dagmar Strauss. Crows Nest: ABC Enterprises, 1990 : pp.37-50

  Turcotte, Gerry (ed). Jack Davis: maker of history. Pymble: Angus & Robertson, 1994