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Comparative Indigenous Literature (EL351)
2009

Texts

y separately published work icon Swallow the Air Dust on Waterglass Tara June Winch , 2003 St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2006 Z1265164 2003 selected work short story (taught in 33 units)

Swallow the Air follows the life of 15-year-old May Gibson, an Aboriginal girl from New South Wales whose mother commits suicide. May and her brother go to live with their aunt, but eventually May travels further afield, first to Redfern's Block in Sydney, then to the Northern Territory, and finally into central New South Wales. She travels to escape, but also in pursuit of a sense of her own history, family, and identity.

Kynship!$!Justice, Daniel!$!!$!Kegedonce Press!$!2005
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The Bone People!$!Hulme, Keri!$!!$!Pan Macmillan!$!2001
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Once Were Warriors!$!Duff, Alan!$!!$!University of Queensland Press!$!1994
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y separately published work icon Snake Dancing Roberta Sykes , St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1998 Z38672 1998 single work autobiography (taught in 1 units) "Snake Dancing chronicles [Sykes's] increasing politicisation and involvement in the Black movement to the time of her invitation from Harvard to take up postgraduate study in the United States. She details the dangerous, demanding and sometimes lonely life of an itinerant activist, and brings human perspective to events that were often headline news around the world."
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An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature In English!$!Moses!$!!$!Oxford University Press!$!2005
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Levels: Undergraduate
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