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'The good editor,' suggests Thomas McCormack in his Fiction Editor, the Novel and the Novelist, 'reads, and ... responds aptly' to the writer's work, 'where "aptly" means "as the ideal appropriate reader would".' McCormack develops an argument that encompasses the dual ideas of sensibility and craft as essential characteristics of the fiction editor. But at an historical juncture that has seen increasing interest in the publication of Indigenous writing, and when Indigenous writers themselves may envisage a multiplicity of readers (writing, for instance, for family and community, and to educate a wider white audience), who is the 'ideal appropriate reader' for the literary works of the current generation of Australian Indigenous writers? And what should the work of this 'good editor' be when engaging with the text of an Indigenous writer? This paper examines such questions using the work of Margaret McDonell and Jennifer Jones, among others, to explore ways in which non-Indigenous editors may apply aspects of McCormack's 'apt response' to the editing of Indigenous texts.' (Author's abstract)
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Black and White : In Search of an ‘Apt’ Response to Indigenous Writing
TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs
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- Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature 2008 anthology poetry drama prose correspondence criticism extract
- Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines 1924 selected work prose
- Paperbark : A Collection of Black Australian Writings 1990 anthology poetry drama short story criticism prose autobiography biography
- Mayi : Some Bush Fruits of the West Kimberley 1997 selected work oral history
- My Place 1990 extract autobiography
- Wandering Girl 1987 single work autobiography
- A Fortunate Life 1980 single work autobiography
- Stradbroke Dreamtime 1972 selected work life story prose short story
- Talking About Celia : Community and Family Memories of Celia Smith 1997 single work life story
- The Australian Editing Handbook 1994 single work non-fiction
- Black Writers White Editors : Episodes of Collaboration and Compromise in Australian Publishing History 2009 single work criticism
- Auntie Rita 1994 single work biography
- Haunted by the Past 1999 single work autobiography
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