Benang: A Worldly Book

Authors

  • Roger Osborne University of Queensland
  • Gillian Whitlock University of Queensland

Keywords:

Kim Scott, Benang, world literature, book history, print culture

Abstract

This article draws on recent trends in Australian literary criticism to scan new horizons for readings of Kim Scott’s novel Benang and, more generally, to consider the networks that shape various scenes of reading and interpretive communities for the production and reception of Australian Indigenous writing.

Author Biographies

Roger Osborne, University of Queensland

Roger Osborne researches book history and print culture.  He is co-editor of the Cambridge edition of Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes and is completing an electronic edition of Joseph Furphy's Such Is Life.

Gillian Whitlock, University of Queensland

Gillian Whitlock is an ARC Professorial Fellow at the University of Queensland, where she is currently working in the archives of asylum seeker letters in the Fryer library.

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Vol. 13 No. 3 (2013): Reconfiguring the National Imaginary

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