INDIGENOUS IDENTITY ORAL TRADITION AND THE LAND IN THE POETRY OF OODGEROO NOONUCCAL LUCI TAPAHONSO AND HAUNANI-KAY TRASK

ECU Author/Contributor (non-ECU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Amanda Woods (Creator)
Institution
East Carolina University (ECU )
Web Site: http://www.ecu.edu/lib/
Advisor
Ellen L. Arnold

Abstract: This thesis is a postcolonial ecocritical examination of the poetry of Oodgeroo Noonuccal Luci Tapahonso and Haunani-Kay Trask. It considers the use of poetry as a continuation of oral tradition the poets' individual use of images of the natural world to depict the ties between their indigenous cultures and the land and the way that this depiction reasserts the native identity of the culture they are representing. 

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Publication
Thesis
Date: 2010
Keywords
Literature, Australian Aboriginal, Ecocriticism, Indigenous culture, Navajo, Poetry, Postcolonial
Subjects
Poetry--Women authors
Women poets, American
Women poets, Australian
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1920-1993--Criticism and interpretation
Tapahonso, Luci, 1953- --Criticism and interpretation
Trask, Haunani-Kay--Criticism and interpretation
Oral tradition in literature
Folk poetry
Indian poetry
Hawaiian poetry
Aboriginal Australian poetry

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