Benang : from the heart / Kim Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Kim, 1957-

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nyunga (Australian people)--Fiction.

Nyunga (Australian people).

Multiracial people--Fiction.

Multiracial people.

Australia--Fiction.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (500 pages)

Place of Publication:

Fremantle, Western Australia : Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1999.

Language Note:

This edition in English.

Summary:

"Harley, a man of Nyoongar ancestry, finds himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self. As the apparently successful outcome of his white grandfather's enthusiastic attempts to isolate and breed the 'first whiteman born', he wants to be a failure. But would such failure mean his Nyoongar ancestors could label him a success? And how can the attempted genocide represented by his family history be told?" "Benang is a novel of celebration and lament, of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing and of powerful utterance. Both tentative and daring, it speaks to the present and a possible future through stories, dreams, rhythms, songs, images and documents mobilised from the incompletely acknowledged and still dynamic past."--Jacket.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed August 18, 2014).

OCLC:

891110727

Access Restriction:

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