Abstract
In the past three decades the first novels by Aboriginal, Maori and Canadian Indian writers have been published. They write with pride of the tenacity of cultures that have survived, despite fragmentation and loss, and their work plays an important part in these cultures’ future survival. From history they reclaim forgotten heroes, or give logic and meaning to figures who have been condemned or ridiculed. They also write with anger and grief of the dispossessed. National differences disappear in the disturbing similarities of their urban settings. The same hopelessness that may be found on the streets of Perth is found in Wellington or Winnipeg.
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Albinski, N.B. (1991). Restoring Broken Houses: The Indigenous Novelists. In: King, B. (eds) The Commonwealth Novel Since 1960. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-64112-3_16
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