Practices of Proximity : The Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literature
Katherine E. Russo
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
Utgitt | Newcastle upon Tyne : : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2010.
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Omfang | 1 online resource (206 p.)
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Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART II; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART III; CHAPTER FIVE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. - 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...
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ISBN | 9781443821612
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