/lit/ - Literature

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Ignore the racists and /pol/ users, they wouldn't understand "culture" or "nuance" if it jumped up and but them in the scrote;

Gurrumul by Robert Hillman is a fairly good auto-biography of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, a blind indigenous singer who's music I would definitely recommend you have a listen to. Here, have a listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uibWtSxkOq8

Fire Country by Victor Steffensen is a good look into the connection between indigenous peoples and the environment and how the loss of indigenous culture has had a direct affect on the environment as a whole.

Whisper Songs by Tony Birch is a set of good poetry (indigenous poetry is amongst my favorite genres)

Drop Bear by Evelyn Araluen, more poetry

Stan Grant is a fairly good author, he usually sticks to cultural books, concerning the place of indigenous peoples in modern society

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe discusses some basic anthropology and agricultural practices of indigenous peoples i.e. how they lived prior to colonial times.

Too much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko, I actually haven't read this one but I hear its okay.

Tell Me Why by Archie Roach talks about the affects of government policies on Indigenous people, pretty depressing read.

Almost anything from the Jindyworobak literary movement is pretty good although it can sometimes appear quite abstract unless your familiar with Anglo-Australian/Indigenous culture.

And don't forget, there is also a HUGE amount of indigenous cinema to enjoy as well, '12 Canoes', 'The Nightingale', 'Yolngu Boy' and 'High Ground' are all fantastic films.

>tfw your country's only philosophical contribution is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_realism

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