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Kim Scott Lecture
Edith Cowan University, Kurongkurl Katitjin School of Indigenous Australian Studies
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Perth
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Edith Cowan University, Kurongkurl Katitjin School of Indigenous Australian Studies
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2001
8612083
single work
film/TV
criticism
Kim discusses some of the processes that he used to research, draft and edit Benang.
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Fever in the Archive
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Humanities Australia , no. 5 2014; (p. 23-35)Anna Haebich investigates how the West Australian Department of Indigenous Affairs archives (1898-1972) have been utilised by Indigenous writers/researchers.
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Sea, Salt, Sand : The Billowing of Benang in Kim Scott’s Country
2021
single work
essay
— Appears in: Saltbush Review , no. 1 2021; -
Making and Unmaking : The Project of the Colonial Nation-state and the Counter-discursive Strategy of Ethnonation in Kim Scott’s Benang
2020
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 56 no. 1 2020; (p. 43-56)'Kim Scott’s 1999 novel Benang has often been read in terms of the anxieties raised by Australia’s Stolen Generation Report. However, this article argues that the novel is not a direct attempt to lay bare white Australia’s neurosis. Rather, the novel aims to interrogate the colonial discourse that formed the basis of the exploitative, white, monologic, modern nation. Benang also deals with the strategic cultural resistance and negotiating manoeuvrings of the Nyoongars seeking to establish their distinct identity and envision an “ethnonation” within a modern nation. Benang thus examines how simultaneous and contrary discourses of nation formation, one modern and the other ethnic, one hegemonic and the other performative, simultaneously make and unmake Australia. The representation of these two contesting nations in Benang is assessed here with reference to modern theories of nation and nationalism.' (Publication abstract)
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What I’m Reading
2018
single work
column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
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"Benang : From the Heart"
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 21 no. 1997; (p. 228-240)
— Review of Benang : From the Heart 1999 single work novel -
The Pain of Finding One's Voice
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 March 1999; (p. 24)
— Review of Benang : From the Heart 1999 single work novel -
Colour My World : Fighting Free from the Virtual Prison of Race
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 June 1999; (p. 9)
— Review of Benang : From the Heart 1999 single work novel -
Nyoongar Man
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 211 1999; (p. 29-30)
— Review of Benang : From the Heart 1999 single work novel -
New Indigenous Fiction
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , Winter vol. 59 no. 2 1999; (p. 191-196)
— Review of Benang : From the Heart 1999 single work novel ; Black Angels, Red Blood 1998 single work novel -
Making Strange Men : Resistance and Reconciliation in Kim Scott's Benang
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Resistance and Reconciliation : Writing in the Commonwealth 2003; (p. 358-370) -
Shouting Back : Kathryn Trees Talks to Kim Scott about His Writing
Kathryn Trees
(interviewer),
1995
single work
interview
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , August/September vol. 10 no. 1 1995; (p. 20-21) -
'The First White Man Born' : Miscegenation and Identity in Kim Scott's Benang
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Imagining Australia : Literature and Culture in the New New World 2004; (p. 137-157) -
Elder Tells Her People's Story
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 10 August no. 357 2005; (p. 27) -
Kim Scott's Benang : Monstrous (Textual) Bodies
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 65 no. 1 2005; (p. 63-73) Slater contends that 'Throughout Benang, Scott suggests that it is the body's openness to the environment that unsettled the colonisers and made them determine that to establish and maintain sovereignty it was necessary to make a white nation.'
Awards
- 2001 winner Australian Centre Literary Awards — The Kate Challis RAKA Award — Creative Prose
- 2000 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
- 2000 joint winner Miles Franklin Literary Award
- 1999 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Fiction
- Western Australia,
- Bush,
- 1900-1999