1917 - 2000
Jack Davis (playwright) Australian Writer
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| First Name |
Jack
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| Last Name |
Davis
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1916
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| Birthplace |
Yarloop, Western Australia, Australia
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| Died |
17th March, 2000
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| Place of Death |
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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| Nationality |
Australian
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| Occupation Text |
Playwright and Poet
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| Occupation |
Writer
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Jack Leonard Davis AM, BEM (11 March 1917 – 17 March 2000) was an Australian 20th-century Aboriginal playwright, poet and Indigenous activist. Academic Adam Shoemaker, who has covered much of Jack Davis‘ work and Aboriginal literature, has claimed he was one of “Australia’s most influential Aboriginal authors”. He was born in Perth, Western Australia, where he spent most of his life and later died. He identified with the Western Australian Nyoongah tribe, also spelt Noongar, and he included some of this language into his plays.
In conjunction with Davis’ use of his native language, academics have inferred that his work includes themes of Aboriginality and Aboriginalism. These literary concepts are used to communicate the relationship between cultures.
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