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'In his first novel True Country, Kim Scott established himself as a writer who is determined to investigate the continued traumatic effects of colonial violence. Harley, the protagonist of Scott's second novel Benang: from the Heart (the co-winner of the Miles Franklin award), takes up a pen in response to reductionist assimilationist records. He states:
But I found myself among paper, words not formed by an intention corresponding to my own, and I read a world weak in creative spirit. (472)' (Introduction)
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- Benang : From the Heart 1999 single work novel
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