Abstract
This is a story about how I came to write. In 2010, when I was in my late 40s, I completed a PhD and wrote a volume of poetry and a novel. This is a story. It is not an essay or an article or a treatise or anything else that �scholarly� writing is called in western literature. This is a story because Aboriginal people live for and by stories. This is the story about how I came to write all that I did and how I came to find my place and my voice in a nation that until the early 1970s was dominated by an official White Australia Policy. It can be argued that, even in the twenty-first century, vestiges of the �white nation� still prevail. (First paragraph of chapter).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Ngapartji Ngapartji: In turn in turn: Ego-histoire, Europe and Indigenous Australia |
| Editors | Vanessa Castejon, Anna Cole, Oliver Haag and Karen Hughes |
| Place of Publication | Canberra |
| Publisher | ANU Press |
| Pages | 211-225 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781925021721 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2014 |