About the Author

Katherine E. Russo, PhD University of New South Wales (Sydney), is currently Post-Doctoral Fellow in English at the University of Naples “L'Orientale”, where she also lectures. Her research focuses on post-colonial Englishes and literatures, modernity and modernism, translation studies, and gender studies. She has published several articles on strategies of appropriation, editorial relations and cross-cultural exhibitions. Her publications include ContamiNATIONS (2005), a special issue of New Literatures Review, and, as co-author, Middle Passages: English for Cultural and Postcolonial Studies (2007).

Reviews

“This well-written book makes a valuable intervention in the field of postcolonial studies. Yet, this intervention has a universal scope. Russo's discussion offers ways of reading and understanding cultural and historical as well as linguistic paradigms that are pertinent to any situations of conflict, colonial domination, neocolonial power systems and questions of minority cultural production.” Winner of the 2012 European Society for the Study of English Book Award in Cultural StudiesESSE website“Katherine Russo’s ground-breaking study is the first comprehensive analysis of the transformations of Aboriginal English in literature. Russo’s study goes deeper and further than anything yet produced and shows the development of Aboriginal English as a lived phenomenon. Practices of Proximity is a lively, sophisticated and compelling analysis of a central post-colonial phenomenon.”Bill AshcroftUniversity of New South Wales, Sydney“As an Italian Australian scholar Russo engages with Aboriginal literature within the parameters of her own complex intimacies. She brings a thoughtful, new perspective to bear upon the literature, analysing established foundational writers such as Oodgeroo and Jack Davis alongside rising stars such as Romaine Moreton. She examines these writers within the context of pressing global issues such as anxieties about border control and migration ... This is a compelling and thought-provoking read which changes the way we think about Aboriginal literature and sets it within current global conditions.”Anne BrewsterUniversity of New South Wales, Sydney