Jindyworobak Movement - Major Influences

Major Influences

  • Norma Lochlenah Davis
  • Lyndhurst Giblin
  • Mary Gilmore
  • Xavier Herbert - although not formally associated with the movement, his Capricornia of 1938, describes the early pioneer movement in the contemporary Northern Territory, Australian values, and white settler relationships positive and negative with the natives, as well as the native culture itself.
  • Margaret Preston, visual artist who strived for a national style based on Aboriginal art, and contributed illustrations and essays to some Jindyworobak publications
  • D. H. Lawrence, mainly through his novel Kangaroo
  • P. R. Stephensen through The Foundations of Culture in Australia
  • Ted Strehlow

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