Resources

ON HERBERT’S USE OF GENRE
Frye, Northrop, Anatomy of Criticism, Penguin, London, 1990.

ON POOR FELLOW MY COUNTRY
Healy, J. J., Literature and the Aborigine in Australia 1770–1975, UQP, St Lucia, 1978. Chapter 12 is on Poor Fellow My Country
Healy, J. J., ‘Review of Xavier Herbert by Laurie Clancy’, Australian Literary Studies, 10(4), October 1982, pp. 535–41.
Daniel, Helen, ‘Outsiders and society: Poor Fellow My Country’, Westerly, 23(4), December 1978, pp. 37–47.
McLaren, John, Herbert’s Capricornia and Poor Fellow My Country, Shillington House, Melbourne, 1981.
Hergenhan, Laurie, ‘An Australian tragedy: Xavier Herbert’s Poor Fellow My Country’, Quadrant, 21(2), 1977, pp. 62–70.
McQueen, Humphrey, ‘Poor Fellow My Country’, Arena, 41, 1976, pp. 79–91.
Stow, Randolph, ‘Epic of Capricorn’, Times Literary Supplement, 9 April 1976, p. 417.

ON CAPRICORNIA
Buckley, Vincent, ‘Capricornia’, Meanjin, 19(1), 1960, pp. 13–30.
Kiernan, Brian, ‘Xavier Herbert: Capricornia’, Australian Literary Studies, 4(4), October 1970, pp. 360–70.
Moore, Tom Inglis,  ‘Capricornia’, Australian Highway, 20 March 1938, pp. 21–3.
Moore, Tom Inglis, ‘The cry of the crow: Sombreness in Australian literature’, Meanjin, 30(1), March 1971, pp. 5–26.
Prideaux, Helen, ‘The experimental novel in Australia, part 1’, Prospect, 3(2), 1960, pp. 13–14, 16.

BIOGRAPHY
de Groen, Frances, Xavier Herbert, UQP, St Lucia, 1998.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sansome, David, Xavier Herbert a Bibliography, Occasional Papers No. 6, Northern Territory Library Service, Darwin, 1988.

XAVIER HERBERT’S NOVELS
Herbert, Xavier, Capricornia, Angus & Robertson, Melbourne, 1971 (1938).
Herbert, Xavier, Seven Emus, Fontana, Melbourne, 1977 (1959).
Herbert, Xavier, Soldiers’ Women, Fontana, Netley, 1978 (1961).
Herbert, Xavier, Poor Fellow My Country, Collins, Sydney, 1975.
Herbert, Xavier, The Little Widow, Box 15, FL Mss 83.  (unpublished)

XAVIER HERBERT’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Herbert, Xavier, Disturbing Element, Fontana, Melbourne, 1976 (1963).

XAVIER HERBERT’S SHORT STORIES
Herbert, Xavier, Larger Than Life, Fontana, Melbourne, 1976 (1963).
McDougall, Russell (ed.), South of Capricornia, OUP, Melbourne, 1990.

XAVIER HERBERT’S ARTICLES
Herbert, Xavier,  ‘I sinned against syntax’, Meanjin, 19(1), 1960, pp. 31–5.
Herbert, Xavier,  ‘My road to Ruhen’, Observer, Sydney, 24 December 1960, pp. 4–6.
Herbert, Xavier,  ‘Bang goes my O.B.E.!’, Bulletin, 22 February 1961, p. 52.
Herbert, Xavier,  ‘How Capricornia was made’, Bulletin, 8 March 1961, pp. 51–2.
Herbert, Xavier,  ‘Herbert’s retort to Stephensen’, Bulletin, 29 March 1961, p. 52.
Herbert, Xavier,  ‘Tom Flynn of Rum Jungle’, Bulletin, 31 March 1962, p. 12.
Herbert, Xavier,  ‘A town like Elliott: “There is no solution to the Aborigines’ problem”’, Bulletin, 31 March 1962, pp. 23–5.
Herbert, Xavier,  ‘May his spirit not be disturbed by hacks’, Tribune, 5 June 1967, p. 5.
Herbert, Xavier,  ‘The agony and the joy’, Overland, 50–51, Autumn 1972, pp. 65–8.
Herbert, Xavier,  ‘Declaration in Support of Labour’, December 1975, FL Mss 83.
Herbert, Xavier,  ‘Declaration by Xavier Herbert’, April 1978, FL Mss 83.
Herbert, Xavier,  ‘As a prophet, the great satirist was a failure’, Sydney Morning Herald, 10 January 1984, p. 7.
Herbert, Xavier,  ‘Australia—in the Crystal Ball’, Box 20, FL Mss 83.
Herbert, Xavier,  ‘Minjie Meanjin’, Box 20, FL Mss 83.
Herbert, Xavier,  ‘Little Foxes’, unpublished, Box 60, FL Mss 83.

FL = The Fryer Library, Queensland University