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People of the Dreamtime

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Australian Aboriginal oral traditions

In Australian literature: Aboriginal narrative: the oral tradition
…Tales (1896) or Alan Marshall’s People of the Dreamtime (1952), where the stories are reshaped to meet European notions of narrative design and structure.
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