Swallow the Air (HSC SSCE English Standard): Flashcards

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Year 'Swallow the Air' published

2006

Author of 'Swallow the Air'

Tara June Winch

Protagonist of 'Swallow the Air'

May Gibson

Winch's Indigenous heritage

Wiradjuri

Novel structure: self-contained short chapters

Vignettes

Terra Nullius meaning

Nobody's land

Stolen Generations period

1910-1970

Wiradjuri word for Country

Ngurra

Winch's 3 purposes acronym (Reclaim, Witness, Affirm)

RWA

May's epiphany: 'This land is belonging...'

...all of it for all of us

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