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This international collection of eleven original essays on
Australian Aboriginal literature provides a comprehensive critical
companion that contextualizes the Aboriginal canon for scholars,
researchers, students, and general readers. Australian Aboriginal
literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary
studies, now receives both national and international attention.
Not only has the number of published texts by contemporary
Australian Aboriginals risen sharply, but scholars and publishers
have also recently begun recovering earlier published and
unpublished Indigenous works. Writing by Australian Aboriginals is
making a decisive impression in fiction, autobiography, biography,
poetry, film, drama, and music, and has recently been anthologized
in Oceania and North America. Until now, however, there has been no
comprehensive critical companion that contextualizes the Aboriginal
canon for scholars, researchers, students, and general readers.
This international collection of eleven original essays fills this
gap by discussing crucial aspects of Australian Aboriginal
literature and tracing the development of Aboriginalliteracy from
the oral tradition up until today, contextualizing the work of
Aboriginal artists and writers and exploring aspects of Aboriginal
life writing such as obstacles toward publishing, questions of
editorial control (orthe lack thereof), intergenerational and
interracial collaborations combining oral history and life writing,
and the pros and cons of translation into European languages.
Contributors: Katrin Althans, Maryrose Casey, Danica Cerce, Stuart
Cooke, Paula Anca Farca, Michael R. Griffiths, Oliver Haag, Martina
Horakova, Jennifer Jones, Nicholas Jose, Andrew King, Jeanine
Leane, Theodore F. Sheckels, Belinda Wheeler. Belinda Wheeler is
Associate Professor of English at Claflin University, Orangeburg,
SC.
New essays on the acclaimed Australian Indigenous author's entire
body of work, including his novels, short stories, poetry, and his
work with Indigenous language and health. Since the mid-1980s there
has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by
Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those
works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australian author who continues
to makea contribution to both the Australian and the global canon
is Kim Scott (1957-). Scott has won many awards, including
Australia's highest, the prestigious Miles Franklin Award, for his
novels Benang (in 2000) and That Deadman Dance (in 2011). Scott has
also published in other literary genres, including poetry, the
short story, and children's literature, and he has written and
worked professionally on Indigenous health issues. Despite
Scott'snational and international acclaim, there is currently no
comprehensive critical companion that contextualizes his work for
scholars, students, and general readers. A Companion to the Works
of Kim Scott fills this void by providing a collection of eleven
original essays focusing on Scott's novels, short stories, poetry,
and his work with the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project
and Indigenous health. The companion also includes an
originalinterview with the author. Contributors: Christine Choo,
Arindam Das, Per Henningsgaard, Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, Jeanine Leane,
Brenda Machosky, Nathanael Pree, Natalie Quinlivan, Lydia Saleh
Rofail, Lisa Slater, Rosalie Thackrah and Sandra Thompson, Belinda
Wheeler, Gillian Whitlock and Roger Osborne. Belinda Wheeler is
Associate Professor of English at Claflin University, Orangeburg,
South Carolina.
This international collection of eleven original essays on
Australian Aboriginal literature provides a comprehensive critical
companion that contextualizes the Aboriginal canon for scholars,
researchers, students, and general readers. Australian Aboriginal
literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary
studies, now receives both national and international attention.
Not only has the number of published texts by contemporary
Australian Aboriginals risen sharply, but scholars and publishers
have also recently begun recovering earlier published and
unpublished Indigenous works. Writing by Australian Aboriginals is
making a decisive impression in fiction, autobiography, biography,
poetry, film, drama, and music, and has recently been anthologized
in Oceania and North America. Until now, however, there has been no
comprehensive critical companion that contextualizes the Aboriginal
canon for scholars, researchers, students, and general readers.
This international collection of eleven original essays fills this
gap by discussing crucial aspects of Australian Aboriginal
literature and tracing the development of Aboriginalliteracy from
the oral tradition up until today, contextualizing the work of
Aboriginal artists and writers and exploring aspects of Aboriginal
life writing such as obstacles toward publishing, questions of
editorial control (orthe lack thereof), intergenerational and
interracial collaborations combining oral history and life writing,
and the pros and cons of translation into European languages.
Contributors: Katrin Althans, Maryrose Casey, Danica Cerce, Stuart
Cooke, Paula Anca Farca, Michael R. Griffiths, Oliver Haag, Martina
Horakova, Jennifer Jones, Nicholas Jose, Andrew King, Jeanine
Leane, Theodore F. Sheckels, Belinda Wheeler. Belinda Wheeler is
Associate Professor of English at Claflin University, Orangeburg,
SC.
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