“A Whole Alternative Universe”: Language and Space in David Malouf’s “The Only Speaker of His Tongue”

By displacing Aboriginal communities, interfering with their migratorial routes and sacred sites and forcing them into sedentary practices, European colonialism disrupted the closely-knit links between people, space and language that had characterised life in Australia for 40,000 years prior to the...

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Main Author: Deborah Scheidt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2016-06-01
Series:Ilha do Desterro
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/43250
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