Noongar Mambara Bakitj
$23.99
- Paperback
44 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2011
Summary
Noongar Mambara Bakitj was created as part of an Indigenous language recovery project led by Kim Scott and the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project. Inspired by a creation story told to the American linguist Gerhardt Laves at Albany, Western Australia, around 1931 and returned to the Noongar people by his family after his death in the 1980s, the story was workshopped through a series of community meetings involving elders some of whom told stories to Laves in 1931 artists…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742582955 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1742582958 |
| Author: | Kim Scott, Lomas Roberts, Geoffrey Woods, Anthony Roberts |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWAP |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 44 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 218g |
| Dimensions: | 275mm x 225mm |
| Series: | Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project |
Kim Scott
The Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project Incorporated is an association with aims of reclaiming, supporting, promoting and maintaining Wirlomin Noongar cultural heritage. They work to reclaim Wirlomin stories and dialect, in support of the maintenance of Noongar language, and to share them with Noongar families and communities as part of a process to claim, control and enhance Wirlomin Noongar cultural heritage. More information can be found on the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories website.
Kim Scott is a descendant of people living along the south coast of Western Australia prior to colonisation, and is proud to be one among those who call themselves Noongar. He began writing for publication shortly after he became a secondary school teacher of English. True Country, his first novel, was published in 1993. His subsequent books include Benang: From the Heart (1999), Kayang & Me (2005), That Deadman Dance (2010) and Taboo (2017). Kim’s writing has won numerous national and international awards, including the Miles Franklin Literary Award (twice) and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. He is currently Professor of Writing at Curtin University in Western Australia.
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