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'Before opening Nganajungu Yagu, readers see the image of an old-fashioned suitcase over which the author’s name and book’s title are superimposed. The title, from the Wajarri language, means “my mother,” the author tells us. What are the implications: Is Nganajungu Yagu to be a book of tragic travelogues undertaken in mostly lost indigenous tongues, Charmaine Papertalk Green versing and traversing brutally colonized lands? Or does the code-mixing in this book (between Wajarri, Badimaya, and English) imply language as a portmanteau, comporting disempowerment for indigenous language users in epistemically violent colonial contexts? Or is this writer working interlinguistically against inheritances bequeathing disconnection in a monoculturally imperialized place, as if to send an epistle issuing a set of instructions on the means by which Aboriginal Australians might fight back against a version of “Australia” that historically and systematically displaces and dispossesses indigenous peoples?' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon World Literature Today vol. 94 no. 2 2020 19072980 2020 periodical issue 'An introduction to articles published within the issue is presented on topics including the ability of graphic nonfiction to convey deep ethical meaning, the poetry by Elyas Alavi, Mohamad Nassereddine, and Khaled Mattawa, and a story by Elizabeth Joy Serrano-Quijano.' (Editor's Note, introduction) 2020 pg. 93-95
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