Practices of Proximity: The Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literature - Couverture rigide

Russo, Katherine E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1443821616 ISBN 13 : 9781443821612

Editeur : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

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 inhabit the intersubjective space of literature, rendering the inherited authority of who ‘owns’ meaning problematical and ethically suspect. Documenting the complex practices of bricolage and re-lexification of a multi-accentuated Australia, the book invites readers to consider Australian Indigenous literature as a space from which a re-routing of issues of co-habitation, sovereignty, and being and becoming Australian might begin. This interdisciplinary study of Australian Indigenous practices of appropriation ranges from texts produced during the first encounters of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to the work of established and rising authors, such as Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Jack Davis, Lionel Fogarty, Romaine Moreton and Kim Scott.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Katherine E. Russo, PhD University of New South Wales (Sydney), is currently Post-Doctoral Fellow in English at the University of Naples “L'Orientale”, where she also lectures. Her research focuses on post-colonial Englishes and literatures, modernity and modernism, translation studies, and gender studies. She has published several articles on strategies of appropriation, editorial relations and cross-cultural exhibitions. Her publications include ContamiNATIONS (2005), a special issue of New Literatures Review, and, as co-author, Middle Passages: English for Cultural and Postcolonial Studies (2007).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1443821616
• ISBN 13: 9781443821612
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 210
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible