Voices in Australia's Aboriginal and Canada's First Nations Literatures

• Published in: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
• Main Authors: Scott, Kim, Robinson, Eden
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Purdue University 2011
• Subjects: comparative literature; Arts and Humanities; Critical and Cultural Studies; Haisla; First Nations
• Online Access: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol13/iss2/9; https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1747; https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/context/clcweb/article/1747/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf

Kim Scott suggests in his text "I Come from Here" by means of "yarning" that the authority of Indigenous people and language is primary to an authentic "sense of place." Scott uses an accumulative, episodic, and personal narrative style to argue that the return "to...