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Kim Scott Lecture
Edith Cowan University, Kurongkurl Katitjin School of Indigenous Australian Studies
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Perth
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Edith Cowan University, Kurongkurl Katitjin School of Indigenous Australian Studies
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2001
8612083
single work
film/TV
criticism
Kim discusses some of the processes that he used to research, draft and edit Benang.
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Fever in the Archive
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Humanities Australia , no. 5 2014; (p. 23-35)Anna Haebich investigates how the West Australian Department of Indigenous Affairs archives (1898-1972) have been utilised by Indigenous writers/researchers.
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Free to Roam : Foot Notes on Sovereignty in Indigenous Film and Fiction
2024
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , 4 November vol. 23 no. 2 2024;'Engagements with walking, wandering, roaming the land are not new to Australian writers or filmmakers. A recognition of ambulation as discursive, as world-making, continues today: “First you have to learn to walk,” announces Stephen Muecke in a new book, co-authored with Paddy Roe, on learning how to move on Country. Muecke’s teachers and guides are Indigenous knowledge-holders; he walks only in their footsteps. But in post-Mabo narratives more generally, whose lands are being walked on? Whose worlds are being made as mobility is performed? This essay examines the trope of roaming and of the foot in contemporary Australian Indigenous-authored narratives, wherein walking or mobility in story invokes not only a connection to Country but an enactment of law making and an assertion of Indigenous sovereignty. In a seminal speech in Adelaide in 2003, Indigenous legal philosopher Irene Watson asked “Are we Free to Roam?” Watson asserted the freedom to walk, “to sing and to live with the land of [one’s] ancestors” as a measure of the attainment of Indigenous sovereignty. She called for Aboriginal voices to look “beyond the limited horizon” of the time towards a moment and place of sovereignty. I argue that these voices have now emerged. Beginning with an examination of Ivan Sen’s film Beneath Clouds (2002), I then examine walking and movement in a selection of more recent Indigenous-authored novels (by Alexis Wright, Kim Scott and Julie Janson) and film (by Richard J. Frankland), as well as in new legal thinking which suggests that law-walking might be more prevalent in Australia than previously known.' (Publication abstract)
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Collective Memory as an Apparatus to Revisit the Aboriginal Past in Kim Scott’s Benang
2023
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meditations on Memory: Aesthetics and Poetics of Forgetting 2023; (p. 187-192) -
Place-Based Storytelling in Kim Scott’s Benang and That Deadman Dance
2021
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction 2021;
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"Benang : From the Heart"
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , vol. 21 no. 1997; (p. 228-240)
— Review of Benang : From the Heart 1999 single work novel -
The Pain of Finding One's Voice
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 March 1999; (p. 24)
— Review of Benang : From the Heart 1999 single work novel -
Colour My World : Fighting Free from the Virtual Prison of Race
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 June 1999; (p. 9)
— Review of Benang : From the Heart 1999 single work novel -
Nyoongar Man
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 211 1999; (p. 29-30)
— Review of Benang : From the Heart 1999 single work novel -
New Indigenous Fiction
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , Winter vol. 59 no. 2 1999; (p. 191-196)
— Review of Benang : From the Heart 1999 single work novel ; Black Angels, Red Blood 1998 single work novel -
Making Strange Men : Resistance and Reconciliation in Kim Scott's Benang
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Resistance and Reconciliation : Writing in the Commonwealth 2003; (p. 358-370) -
Shouting Back : Kathryn Trees Talks to Kim Scott about His Writing
Kathryn Trees
(interviewer),
1995
single work
interview
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , August/September vol. 10 no. 1 1995; (p. 20-21) -
'The First White Man Born' : Miscegenation and Identity in Kim Scott's Benang
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Imagining Australia : Literature and Culture in the New New World 2004; (p. 137-157) -
Elder Tells Her People's Story
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 10 August no. 357 2005; (p. 27) -
Kim Scott's Benang : Monstrous (Textual) Bodies
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 65 no. 1 2005; (p. 63-73) Slater contends that 'Throughout Benang, Scott suggests that it is the body's openness to the environment that unsettled the colonisers and made them determine that to establish and maintain sovereignty it was necessary to make a white nation.'
Awards
- 2001 winner Australian Centre Literary Awards — The Kate Challis RAKA Award — Creative Prose
- 2000 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
- 2000 joint winner Miles Franklin Literary Award
- 1999 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Fiction
- Western Australia,
- Bush,
- 1900-1999