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. 

Additional Information

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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