Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Orthography
- Chronology of Key Writings
- Introduction
- 1 Kim Scott’s Publishing History in Three Contexts: Australian Aboriginal, National, and International
- 2 Kim Scott’s True Country as Aboriginal Bildungsroman
- 3 The Land Holds All Things: Kim Scott’s Benang—A Guide to Postcolonial Spatiality
- 4 Kim Scott’s Kayang and Me: Noongar Identity and Evidence of Connection to Country
- 5 “Wreck/Con/Silly/Nation”: Mimicry, Strategic Essentialism, and the “Friendly Frontier” in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance
- 6 The International Reception of Kim Scott’s Works: A Case Study Featuring Benang
- 7 Traumatic Landscapes: Inscribing Spectrality and Identity in Kim Scott’s “A Refreshing Sleep,” “Capture,” and “An Intimate Act”
- 8 Spatial Poetics and the Uses of Ekphrasis in Kim Scott’s “Into the Light” and Other Stories
- 9 The Poetry of Kim Scott
- 10 The Wirlomin Project and Kim Scott: Empowering Regional Narratives in a Globalized World of Literature
- 11 Kim Scott as Boundary Rider: Exploring Possibilities and New Frontiers in Aboriginal Health
- 12 An Interview with Kim Scott
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 May 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Orthography
- Chronology of Key Writings
- Introduction
- 1 Kim Scott’s Publishing History in Three Contexts: Australian Aboriginal, National, and International
- 2 Kim Scott’s True Country as Aboriginal Bildungsroman
- 3 The Land Holds All Things: Kim Scott’s Benang—A Guide to Postcolonial Spatiality
- 4 Kim Scott’s Kayang and Me: Noongar Identity and Evidence of Connection to Country
- 5 “Wreck/Con/Silly/Nation”: Mimicry, Strategic Essentialism, and the “Friendly Frontier” in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance
- 6 The International Reception of Kim Scott’s Works: A Case Study Featuring Benang
- 7 Traumatic Landscapes: Inscribing Spectrality and Identity in Kim Scott’s “A Refreshing Sleep,” “Capture,” and “An Intimate Act”
- 8 Spatial Poetics and the Uses of Ekphrasis in Kim Scott’s “Into the Light” and Other Stories
- 9 The Poetry of Kim Scott
- 10 The Wirlomin Project and Kim Scott: Empowering Regional Narratives in a Globalized World of Literature
- 11 Kim Scott as Boundary Rider: Exploring Possibilities and New Frontiers in Aboriginal Health
- 12 An Interview with Kim Scott
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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- A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott , pp. ix - xPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2016