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Practices of proximity : the appropriation of English in Australian indigenous literature / by Katherine E. Russo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Russo, Katherine E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australian literature--History and criticism.
- Australian literature.
- Australian literature--Aboriginal Australian authors--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 inhab...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART II; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART III; CHAPTER FIVE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-65079-3
- 9786612650796
- 1-4438-2166-7
- OCLC:
- 827209133
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