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A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott edited by Belinda Wheeler

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September 2016, no. 384

A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott edited by Belinda Wheeler

Camden House $163.95 hb, 184 pp, 9781571139498

A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott edited by Belinda Wheeler

by
September 2016, no. 384

In 2004 Kim Scott delivered the prestigious Herbert Blaiklock Memorial Lecture to a predominantly academic audience at the University of Sydney. Provocatively, he began by saying that he did not know much about Australian literature; the literature of this country did not reflect his experiences or his sense of identity. It certainly was not the literature of his country. Scott wanted to question and complicate the categories of Australian and indigenous literature. His concern that indigenous literature was considered to be a lesser version, or subset, of our national literature had seemed to be confirmed when he located his novel Benang: From the heart (1999) in a bookshop under 'Australiana'.

Bernadette Brennan reviews 'A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott' edited by Belinda Wheeler

A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott

edited by Belinda Wheeler

Camden House $163.95 hb, 184 pp, 9781571139498

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