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Practices of Proximity : the Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literature.

Practices of Proximity investigates the appropriation of the English language taking place in the Australian literary contact zone between an official 'white' Australia-the apparent owners of both the land and the English language-and Australian Indigenous peoples. Rescuing the debate from...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Russo, Katherine E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Practices of Proximity investigates the appropriation of the English language taking place in the Australian literary contact zone between an official 'white' Australia-the apparent owners of both the land and the English language-and Australian Indigenous peoples. Rescuing the debate from seemingly peripheral locations-the 'empty' Great Sandy Desert, or the abject urban margin-it insists on the complex, ultimately open-ended and multilateral ownership of the English language by all who inhab ...
Descripción Física:1 online resource (206 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781443821667
1443821667