Summary
You won’t find ‘terraglossia’ on Google, or in a dictionary. It’s a word coined by acclaimed academic and award-winning author Dr Debra Dank in response to the first Europeans’ description of Australia as ‘terra nullius’ - no one’s land. These new arrivals, with their language born far away, silenced and made invisible the more-than-ancient civilisations that have lived in and with this place for many thousands of years. The First Peoples became ‘other’, spoken for and about in another langua…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760689803 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760689807 |
| Author: | Debra Dank |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
| Imprint: | Echo Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 3 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 372g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 216mm x 140mm |
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“We need to look through Dank’s eyes - she literally spells it out for us, in black and white marks on the page in this, her latest gift to the nation.” Sue Joseph, foreword
About The Author
Debra Dank
A Gudanji/Wakaja and Kalkadoon woman from the Barkly Tablelands in the Northern Territory, Dr Debra Dank is an Enterprise Fellow with the University of South Australia. She has spent 40 years working in primary, secondary and tertiary education roles, in urban and remote areas across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and the Northern Territory. She is interested in multiform narrative and its practice in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities and the role semiotics plays in that. Her book, We Come with This Place, won numerous honours in 2023, including four New South Wales Premier’s Awards and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Debra is passionate about the environment, especially as her Country, on the Beetaloo Basin, is under threat of being fracked.
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