What became of the white savage
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What became of the white savage
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The work What became of the white savage represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- What became of the white savage
- Statement of responsibility
- François Garde ; translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
- Subject
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- Language - Bilingualism and multilingualism
- Gathering - Bush tucker
- Castaways -- Queensland | Cape York Peninsula -- Fiction
- French -- Queensland | Cape York Peninsular -- History
- Pelletier, Narcisse, 1844-1894
- Cultural assimilation
- Settlement and contacts - French
- Daily life
- Water supply - Waterholes and rockpools
- Family
- Hunting, gathering and fishing
- Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland | Cape York Peninsula -- Folklore
- Culture - Cultural awareness
- Social identity
- Cultural assimilation -- Australia
- Language
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- eng
- fre
- eng
- Summary
- In the 1840s, Narcisse, a young French sailor is abandoned on the coast of Australia and given up for dead by his shipmates. Seventeen years later he is found living among aboriginal peoples, having apparently forgotten everything of his original identitity, including his native French language. Octave de Vallombrun, a well-meaning geographer, takes him under his wing and sets out to bring Narcisse, now known as the "white savage", back to civilisation and to find out what happened during those seventeen years. Observing Narcisse's struggle to adjust to the ways of the white man, Octave begins to question his assumptions about what it means to be civilised, and to see in a new light the man known as the "white savage"
- Additional physical form
- Also issued online.
- Awards note
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- English Pen Award.
- Prix Goncourt, 2012.
- Cataloging source
- NNU
- Dewey number
- 843.9/2
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PQ2707.A755
- LC item number
- W4313 2015
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- Dedalus Europe
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