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Practices of Proximity - The Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literature (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Practices of Proximity - The Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literature (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Practices of Proximity investigates the appropriation of the
English language taking place in the Australian literary contact
zone between an official `white' Australia-the apparent owners of
both the land and the English language-and Australian Indigenous
peoples. Rescuing the debate from seemingly peripheral
locations-the `empty' Great Sandy Desert, or the abject urban
margin-it insists on the complex, ultimately open-ended and
multilateral ownership of the English language by all who inhabit
the intersubjective space of literature, rendering the inherited
authority of who `owns' meaning problematical and ethically
suspect. Documenting the complex practices of bricolage and
re-lexification of a multi-accentuated Australia, the book invites
readers to consider Australian Indigenous literature as a space
from which a re-routing of issues of co-habitation, sovereignty,
and being and becoming Australian might begin. This
interdisciplinary study of Australian Indigenous practices of
appropriation ranges from texts produced during the first
encounters of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to the work of
established and rising authors, such as Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Jack
Davis, Lionel Fogarty, Romaine Moreton and Kim Scott.
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