{"product_id":"meanjin-4-1977-aboriginal-issue-edited-by-meanjin-literary-journal","title":"'Meanjin 4\/1977: Aboriginal Issue' edited by Meanjin Literary Journal","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"38\" data-end=\"564\"\u003eA significant late-1970s issue of \u003cem data-start=\"72\" data-end=\"81\"\u003eMeanjin\u003c\/em\u003e devoted to Aboriginal writing, politics, culture, language, sovereignty and representation, published at a point when Australian literary institutions were still very much being forced, slowly and often badly, to confront the fact that “national literature” had been built on a fairly spectacular act of exclusion. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"566\" data-end=\"1283\"\u003eThis is not just “an old literary journal” in the usual nice-but-dusty sense. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe contributor is extraordinary. Kath Walker \/ Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Colin Johnson \/ Mudrooroo, Bobbi Sykes, Gerald Bostock, Aileen Corpus, Les Murray and others. It sits inside a much sharper history: Indigenous writing moving through, against, and beyond settler literary gatekeeping; debates over language, authenticity, cultural inheritance, performance, publication, and who gets to interpret whom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"566\" data-end=\"1283\"\u003eThe Aboriginal flag design on the cover gives it immediate visual and historical force, while the contents make it a useful object for readers interested in First Nations literature, Australian literary history, postcolonial writing, land rights-era cultural politics, and the uneasy machinery of literary recognition. A small, loaded artefact. Not decorative nostalgia — an important part of the archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1285\" data-end=\"1533\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal paperback issue of \u003cem data-start=\"1345\" data-end=\"1354\"\u003eMeanjin\u003c\/em\u003e, Vol. 36, No. 4, 1977: “Aboriginal Issue.” Good second-hand condition with general shelf wear, light rubbing and creasing to covers, and some age-toning\/handling wear internally.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45543200292947,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-06-07T112425.143.png?v=1780795571","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/meanjin-4-1977-aboriginal-issue-edited-by-meanjin-literary-journal","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}