TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART II; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART III; CHAPTER FIVE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary
Practices of Proximity investigates the appropriation of the English language taking place in the Australian literary contact zone between an official 'white' Australia-the apparent owners of both the land and the English language-and Australian Indigenous peoples. Rescuing the debate from seemingly peripheral locations-the 'empty' Great Sandy Desert, or the abject urban margin-it insists on the complex, ultimately open-ended and multilateral ownership of the English language by all who inhab ..
