Discovery Indigenous - Grant ID: IN140100010

Funding Activity

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Funded Activity Summary

The David Unaipon Award: Shaping the literary and cultural history of Aboriginal writing in Australia. The David Unaipon Award has fostered a rich lode of Aboriginal writing and is a vital site for the study of Aboriginal literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This project uses the Award to critically analyse Aboriginal writing and cultural expression in the historical and political context of post-bicentenary Australia. In 2014 the award reaches its 25th year. Now is the time to review and explore the established canon of Aboriginal literature. The book produced from this project will model an historically broader, more nuanced and culturally sensitive paradigm for reading, reviewing, engaging with and teaching Aboriginal literature in the twenty-first century.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-06-2014

End Date: 29-06-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Indigenous

Funding Amount: $558,270.00

Funder: Australian Research Council