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'‘All Australian children deserve to know the country that they share through the stories that Aboriginal people can tell them,’ write Gladys Idjirrimoonra Milroy and Jill Milroy (2008: 42). If country and story, place and voice are intertwined, it is vital that we make space in Australian creative writing classrooms for the reading and writing of Australian Indigenous story. What principles and questions can allow us to begin? We propose six groundings for this work:
- Indigenous story is literary history, literary history is creative power.
- We do culture together: culture becomes in collaboration, conscious or unconscious.
- There is no such thing as Indigenous story, and yet it can be performed and known.
- Country speaks, to our conceptions of voice and point of view.
- History and memory are written in the land and on the body in bodies of practice.
- Story transmits narrative responsibility. Narrative responsibility requires fierce listening.
This two-part paper will discuss each of these groundings as orienting and motivating principles for work we do as teachers of introductory creative writing units at the University of Canberra.' (Publication abstract)
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Six Groundings for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Story in the Australian Creative Writing Classroom : Part 1
TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses
Subjects:
- Different Ways of Knowing : Trees Are Our Families Too 2008 single work life story
- What Happens When You Tell Somebody Else's Story? 2016 single work criticism
- The Land Where the Crow Flies Backwards 1965 single work criticism
- My Survival as an Aboriginal 1978 single work film/TV
- BlackWords : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers and Storytellers 2007 website bibliography
- Coonardoo : The Well in the Shadow 1928 single work novel
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