![]() ![]() In writing her own life story, Heiss centers on her own achievements and the reasons she has devoted herself to the inclusion of people like herself in her nation’s dialog. Her discussion of the need for Indigenous writers should be read by all. ![]() Her popular “choc lit” novels, featuring Aboriginal career women, introducing a wide variety of readers to the existence of women like Heiss. A widely read author, she has become a spokesperson for indigenous peoples throughout Australia and around the world. After earning a Ph.D., she turned away from academia to write full-time. She has devoted herself to the cause of increasing literacy among Aboriginal people and to holding classes for children and adults of their communities to help them write and publish accounts of their own lives. She is a living challenge to stereotypes of Indigenous people as illiterate, poor, and isolated. ![]() : Bantam, 2012.Ī valuable, informative account by an urbane, educated, highly successful Aboriginal Australian woman about her life and her work to include Aboriginal people in her nation’s conversation.Īnita Heiss is impressive. Am I Black Enough for You?, by Anita Heiss. ![]()
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