Legal Witchcraft and the Craft of Fiction: Wik and its Literary Precedents

Authors

  • Terry Threadgold Monash University

Keywords:

Aboriginal people, law, literature, Wik, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Judith Wright

Abstract

The article considers the institutions of literature, law, politics, and economics are all forms of representation forming a sociocutlural network, and examines the law and literature about Aboriginal/white relations and their part in the Wik legal debate.

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Published

2013-02-03

Issue

1998: Australian Literature and the Public Sphere

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How to Cite

Legal Witchcraft and the Craft of Fiction: Wik and its Literary Precedents. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 51-65. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9546