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Abstract
Mudrooroo Narogin's (Colin Johnson's) novel Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World^ is a hybrid cultural artefact, and can be situated between two discourses each of which are generally regarded as mutually exclusive. It is a novel - that is, its form is derived from European traditions of literate discourse - which nonetheless seeks to articulate the breadth and riches of non-book, pre-literate oral culture. It is an Australian novel by an Aboriginal writer, and thus presages the possible shape of Commonwealth writing to come.
Recommended Citation
Tapping, Craig, Oral Cultures and the Empire of Literature, Kunapipi, 11(1), 1989.
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