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" Benang : "
Kim Scott.
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BL
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949462
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b703832
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| Main Entry
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Scott, Kim,1957-
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| Title & Author
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Benang : : from the heart /\ Kim Scott.
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| Publication Statement
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South Fremantle, W.A. :: Fremantle Arts Centre Press,, 1999.
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500 pages :: portrait ;; 21 cm
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| ISBN
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1863682406
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: 9781863682404
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| Abstract
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"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 white man 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, 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 mobilised from the incompletely acknowledged and still dynamic past."--Jacket.
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Nyunga (Australian people), Fiction.
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Racially mixed people, Fiction.
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Government policy-- Assimilation.
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Government policy-- State and territory-- Western Australia.
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Literature and stories-- Fiction.
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Nyunga (Australian people)
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Race relations.
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Racially mixed people.
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Australia, Fiction.
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Australia.
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Western Australia (Wash.)
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.914
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| LC Classification
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PR9619.3.S373B46 1999
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18.07bcl
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