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Benang: From the Heart Book

Benang : Paperback : Fremantle Press : 9781863682404 : 1863682406 : 01 Aug 1999 : Harley, a man of Nyoongar ancestry, finds himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self. As the apparently successful outcome of his white grandfather's enthusiastic attempts to isolate and breed the 'first whiteman born', he wants to be a failure. But would such failure mean his Nyoongar ancestors could label him a success? And how can the attempted genocide represented by his family history be told? Benang is a novel of celebration and lament, of beginning and return...Read More

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    Oceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, this intriguing journey is a celebration and lamentâ??of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing, and of powerful utterance. Both tentative and daring, it speaks to the present and a possible future through stories, dreams, rhythms, songs, images and documents mobilized from the incompletely acknowledged and still dynamic past.

  • 1863682406
  • 9781863682404
  • Kim Scott
  • 1 April 1999
  • Fremantle Arts Centre Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 502
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