![]() ![]() Rearsby, Leicestershire : Wavesound Audiobooks, 2020. y Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia Collingwood: Black Inc. ![]() The result is a collection of stories that speaks to the strength of Aboriginal identity in Australia today, as well as the diversity of voices in the long marginalised Aboriginal literary community.įor this episode of Speaking With, Professor Jacinta Elston, pro vice-chancellor (Indigenous) at Monash University, spoke with Heiss about the process of making the selections for the anthology, the main themes explored in the essays and how she envisions the book being used as a reference tool in classrooms across the country. Growing up Aboriginal in Australia sound recording / edited by Anita Heiss. Professor Anita Heiss is a member of the Wiradjuri nation of central New South Wales and is one of Australia’s most prolific and well-known authors of Aboriginal literature. There’s even an essay by an opera singer, Don Bemrose, about his experience as what she calls a “double minority” – he’s both Aboriginal and gay. In her introduction to Growing up Aboriginal in Australia, editor Anita Heiss writes: These stories cover country from Nukunu to Noongar, Wiradjuri to. Anita Heiss is one of the most prolific writers documenting Aboriginal experiences in Australia today through non-fiction, historical fiction, poetry and children’s literature. ![]() The anthology includes 52 essays from First Nations writers spanning the breadth of society, from rural to urban, young to old, coastal regions to the country’s interior, well known authors to emerging writers. Booksįor her latest book, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, Heiss traded the role of writer for editor. ![]()
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