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Title This country anytime anywhere : an anthology of new indigenous writing from the Northern Territory / [Karl Jabanbi Dank ... [et al.]]
Published Alice Springs, N.T. : IAD Press, 2010
Alice Springs, N.T. : IAD Press, 2010

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 MELB  827.008089915 N8749/T  AVAILABLE
Description vii, 99 pages ; 22 cm
Series New Items
Contents Contributors: Karl Jabanbi Dank, Hans Katakarinja, Sue Stanton, Michael A Torres, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Kevin Dixon, Marie Munkara, Gloria Daylight Corliss, Lynette Nalyirri Lewis, Rosemary Plummer, Milly Napangardi James, Sharon Mununggurr, Judy Nakkamarra Nixon, Doris Roberts, Maureen Nampijinpa O'Keefe, Merrill Bray, Mitch, Valerie Nakamarra Nelson, Sylvia Perrurle Neale, Jenny Fraser, Jessie Bonson & David C Curtis
Summary A contemporary collection that features works by emerging writers as well as many winners of Northern Territory literary awards, including Marie Munkara, winner of the 2008 David Unaipon Award for Every Secret Thing (also judged the 2010 Northern Territory Book of the Year Award). Ranging in age from teenagers to elders, the writers come from diverse backgrounds: rural, urban and remote. Often raw, always powerful, this collection shares the cultural, artistic, political and personal interests of these writers in the 21st century. The strength and beauty of Australian Aboriginal languages - some of them severely endangered - is revealed by the groundbreaking inclusion of eight languages in translation within this anthology. The title is drawn from a poem in the collection .. ́Pinjarra by Sue Jean Stanton
Notes "Jointly developed with the Northern Territory Writers' Centre"--T.p. verso
Contributors: Karl Jabanbi Dank, Hans Katakarinja, Sue Stanton, Michael A Torres, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Kevin Dixon, Marie Munkara, Gloria Daylight Corliss, Lynette Nalyirri Lewis, Rosemary Plummer, Milly Napangardi James, Sharon Mununggurr, Judy Nakkamarra [ more ]Nixon, Doris Roberts, Maureen Nampijinpa O'Keefe, Merrill Bray, Mitch, Valerie Nakamarra Nelson, Sylvia Perrurle Neale, Jenny Fraser, Jessie Bonson & David C Curtis
Some contributions have been translated into a number of endangered Australian Aboriginal languages. They include: Pitjantjatjara, Eastern Arrernte, Western Arrarnta, Wambaya,Warlpiri, Warumungu, Ngaliwurru & Kungarakan
Subject Australian poetry -- Northern Territory -- 21st century
Australian poetry -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- 21st century
Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- 21st century
Australian poetry -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- 21st century
Australian fiction -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- 21st century
Short stories, Australian -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- 21st century
Australian literature -- Northern Territory -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- 21st century
Australian poetry -- Northern Territory -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- 21st century
Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Literary collections
Short stories, Australian -- Northern Territory -- 21st century
Australian literature -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- 21st century
Australian poetry -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- 21st century
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Literary collections
Literature and stories - Poetry.
Wambaya / Wampaya language (C19) (NT SE53-11)
Gungaragany / Kungarakany language (N14) (NT SD52-08)
Literature and stories.
Pitjantjatjara language (C6) (NT SG52-11)
Eastern Arrernte.
Western Arrernte language (C8) (NT SF53-13)
Warlpiri language (C15) (NT SF52-04)
Warumungu language (C18) (NT SE53-01)
Ngaliwuru language (N19) (NT SE52-03)
Aboriginal Australians.
Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors.
Australian poetry -- Aboriginal Australian authors.
Short stories, Australian.
Literatur.
Englandbild.
Aborigines.
Wambaya -- Wampaya language (C19) (NT SE53-11)
Literature and stories -- Poetry.
Gungaragany -- Kungarakany language (N14) (NT SD52-08)
Northern Territory (NT)
Northern Territory.
Nordterritorium (Australien)
Genre/Form Literary collections.
Literature.
Author Dank, Karl Jabanbi, author
Northern Territory Writers' Centre, issuing body
ISBN 9781864651027 (paperback)