Jindyworobak movement

Jindyworobak movement

      brief nationalistic Australian literary movement of the 1930s to mid-1940s that sought to promote native ideas and traditions, especially in literature.

      The movement was swelled by several circumstances: the economic depression focused attention on comparable hardships of an earlier era (the early 1890s); the influx of “alien” culture threatened to overwhelm the young literature then in the making; and travelers described with wonder the little known Australian Outback. Among the discoveries of the period was a romantic notion of the spirit of place and the literary importance of what could still be discerned of Aboriginal culture. Xavier Herbert's Capricornia (1938) typifies the goals of the Jindyworobak movement.

      The poet and novelist James Devaney (1890–1976) took the name Jindyworobak from a 19th-century vocabulary of Wuywurung (an Aboriginal language formerly spoken in the Melbourne region), in which jindi woraback is said to mean “to annex.”

Additional Reading
Brian Elliott (ed.), The Jindyworobaks (1979).

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