2Charles E. Bressler, Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1998, p.266.
3Cecil Hdgraft, "Introduction", The Australian Short Story Before Lawson, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1986,pp. 10-14.
4Archie Weller,"Portrayal of Aboriginal Men in Literature", Social Alternatives 7.1 (1988), p. 56.
5"Short Stories", The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, ed. David Horton,Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Tones Strait Islander Studies, 1994,p. 986.
6Louise E. Rorabacher, "Introduction', Aliens in Their Land, Melbourne, F. W. Cheshire, 1968, p. 17.
7E. T. Brash, "Prejudice Towards Aborigines in Australian Literature", Racism : the Australian Experience ( Volume2: Black Versus White), ed. F. S. Stevens, Sydney: Australia and New Zealand Company, 1972, p. 35,p. 36.
8Elizabeth Webby, "The Aboriginal in Early Australian Literature" (Southerly, 40. 1, 1980).
9Susan Sheridan, '"Wives and mothers like ourselves, poor remnants of a dying race": Aborigines in Colonial Women's Writing' (Kunapipi, 10. 1/2, 1988)
10Terry Goldie, "Signifier Resignifier: Aborigines in Australian Literature" (Kunapipi, 10. 1/2, 1988)
