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Benang From the Heart

"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, 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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  • ""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, 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."@en
  • "Un jeune Métis aborigène de peau blanche s'interroge sur ses origines. Parqué dans une réserve, il pense à l'histoire de son grand-père, Ern, un Blanc qui pensait qu'en se mariant avec une Aborigène celle-ci serait acceptée par la société blanche mais qui, sous la pression, finit par la chasser."
  • "Een aboriginal-nazaat in Australië, opgegroeid bij een racistische blanke grootvader, stuit bij het opschrijven van zijn familiegeschiedenis op discriminatie en onderdrukking."
  • "A powerful and triumphant novel in which the narrator, the 'first white man born', sets out to trace his connection to family and country through the minefield of post-colonial history. Co-winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award."@en
  • "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 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 mobilized from the incompletely acknowledged and still dynamic past."@en

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  • "Australian fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Roman australien"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "Benang From the Heart"@en
  • "Benang : from the heart"
  • "Benang : from the heart"@en
  • "Benang : : from the heart"
  • "Benang : uit het hart"@en
  • "Benang : uit het hart"
  • "Benang from the heart"@en
  • "Benang from the heart"
  • "Benang"

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