![]() The features discussed by Mudrooroo and Perrona are particularly evident in the short stories included in Oodgeroo’s Stradbroke Dreamtime (1972), a collection of memories from the author’s childhood and traditional Aboriginal stories, colorfully illustrated by the Indigenous artist Bronwyn Bancroft. ![]() Over millennia, Australian culture is arguably the culture that has most succeeded in finding a real harmony with the environment and in Oodgeroo’s work, the theme of belonging is related to healing and strength. Among the leitmotifs in Oodgeroo’s oeuvre, Perrona highlights the theme of belonging: according to the critic, in the course of the twentieth century the connection with the land was revived by the synergy between indigenous cultures and Western environmental struggles. The Italian scholar and translator Lorenzo Perrona, including Oodgeroo amongst the most influential Australian intellectuals of the past century, suggests that her work refers to the vast heritage of Aboriginal culture as to something lost, cancelled - something to save as a treasure for the present and for the future. Her simple vocabulary and prosody subtends the intent of the author to imitate the language of childhood, tapping our most sensitive chords. Mudrooroo argues that the apparent naivety of Oodgeroo’s style hides a sophisticated and profound communicative intent. The deliberate rejection of aesthetic concerns, according to Mudrooroo, is intended to produce a sense of alienation. What does matter in her work is the message, while any aesthetic pleasure we derive from her writing is of secondary importance. The Aboriginal writer Mudrooroo, in The Poetemics of Oodgeroo of the Tribe Noonuccal, highlights the fusion of protest (polemics) and language (poetics) as the most innovative aspect of Oodgeroo’s literary contribution. ![]() Oodgeroo wrote poems, short stories, essays, and children literature. Oodgeroo’s literary debut, in fact, coincides with the very beginning of the Aboriginal literature, for her poetry collection We Are Going (1964) was the first poetic work ever published by a native author. """Australian Indigenous writer, educator and activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920-1993) struggled all her life to defend her homeland and her people, as well as to disseminate the Aboriginal culture.
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