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Author Russo, Katherine E.

Title Practices of Proximity : the Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literature.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (206 pages)
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Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART II; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART III; CHAPTER FIVE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
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 ...
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- History and criticism.
Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Russo, Katherine E. Practices of Proximity : The Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literature. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2010 9781443821612
ISBN 9781443821667 (electronic book)
1443821667 (electronic book)
9781443821612 (hardback)