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A companion to the works of Kim Scott, edited by Belinda Wheeler

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A companion to the works of Kim Scott

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edited by Belinda Wheeler

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Since the mid-1980s there has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australianauthor who continues to make a contribution to both the Australian and the global canon is Kim Scott (1957-). Scott has won many awards, including Australia's highest, the prestigious Miles FranklinAward, for his novels <I>Benang</I> (in 2000) and <I>That Deadman Dance</I>(in 2011). Scott has also published in other literary genres, including poetry, the short story, and children's literature, and he has written and worked professionally on Indigenous health issues. Despite Scott's national and international acclaim, there is currently no comprehensive critical companion that contextualizeshis work for scholars, students, and general readers. <I>A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott</I> fills this void by providing a collection of eleven original essays focusing on Scott's novels, shortstories, poetry, and his work with the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project and Indigenous health. The companion also includes an original interview with the author.<BR><BR> Contributors: Christine Choo, Arindam Das, Per Henningsgaard, Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, Jeanine Leane, Brenda Machosky, Nathanael Pree, Natalie Quinlivan, Lydia Saleh Rofail, Lisa Slater, Rosalie Thackrah and Sandra Thompson, Belinda Wheeler, Gillian Whitlock and Roger Osborne.<BR><BR> Belinda Wheeler is Assistant Professor of English at Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina.<BR><BR>--, Provided by publisher

Foreword by Jeanine Leane -- Acknowledgments -- Note on orthography -- Chronology of key writings -- Introduction / Belinda Wheeler -- Kim Scott's publishing history in three contexts: Australian aboriginal, national and international / Per Henningsgaard -- Kim Scott's True country as aboriginal bildungsroman / Brenda Machosky -- The land holds all things: Kim Scott's Benang: a guide to postcolonial spatiality / Lisa Slater -- Kim Scott's Kayang and me: Noongar identity and evidence of connection to country / Christine Choo -- "Wreck/con/silly/nation": mimicry, strategic essentialism, and the "friendly frontier" in Kim Scott's That deadman dance / Arindam Das -- The international reception of Kim Scott's works: a case study featuring Benang / Gillian Whitlock and Roger Osborne -- Traumatic landscapes: inscribing spectrality and identity in Kim Scott's "A refreshing sleep," "Capture," and "An intimate act" / Lydia Saleh Rofail -- Spatial poetics and the uses of ekphrasis in Kim Scott's "Into the light" and other stories / Nathanael Pree -- The poetry of Kim Scott / Tony Hughes-D'Aeth -- The Wirlomin Project and Kim Scott: empowering regional narratives in a globalized world of literature / Natalie Quinlivan -- Kim Scott as boundary rider: exploring possibilities and new frontiers in aboriginal health / Rosalie Thackrah and Sandra Thompson -- An interview with Kim Scott / Belinda Wheeler