WEST AUSTRALIANA Aboriginal Miles Franklin –

A novel concerned with the reclaiming of personal and cultural history. The narrator sets out to trace his connection to family and country through the minefield of post-colonial Aboriginal history. Aust. author. True country.

Winner of the 2000 Miles Franklin Literary Award

A man of Aboriginal ancestry finds himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self. As the apparently successful outcome of years white grandfather’s enthusiastic attempts to isolate and breed the ‘first white man born’, he wants to be a failure. But would such a failure mean that his Nyoongar (Aboriginal) ancestors could labelled him a success? And how can the attempted genocide represented by his family history be told? Aboriginal Studies

• 500 p. : 1 port. ; 21 cm. reprint

• • Literature and stories – Fiction
  • Race relations
  • Government policy – State and territory – Western Australia
  • Government policy – Assimilation
  • Western Australia (WA)

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