Aboriginal literature is a growing field with a rapidly expanding global audience. The book
represents a range of writers; it includes highly acclaimed Aboriginal writers whose works …

That Deadman Dance (2010) is Kim Scott's third novel and his second to win the premier
literary prize in Australia, the Miles Franklin Award. Scott's novel is set in the period of …

Abstract In True Country, the narrator draws the reader close and says,“You listen to me.
We're gunna make a story, true story. You might find it's here you belong. A place like …

There has been a general reluctance among scholars of Australian literature to attempt to
identify recent new directions in Aboriginal narrative prose. Specifically, scholars suggest …

This is the first sustained study of the formal particularities of works by Bruce Pascoe, Kim
Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright. Drawing on a rich theoretical framework that …

This paper explores different readings of Kim Scott's Miles Franklin award-winning novel
That Deadman Dance, which offers a complex portrayal of cross-cultural contact on the so …

Kim Scott is an extraordinary Australian writer. More and more Australians pay their attention
to Kim Scott's works, studying Kim Scott's novels from the perspective of post-modernism …

Abstract The Australian Government's recent commitment to the 2017 Uluru Statement from
The Heart suggests that relations between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and …

Near the beginning of Australian Indigenous filmmaker Richard J. Frankland's comic, stoner,
road-movie, Stone Bros.(2009), one of the two main characters, Eddie, declares he is going …

This thesis examines the way in which a number of contemporary Australian novels use the
contested figure of the early convict to reflect on, and participate in, the recent heated …