Dr Xu's monograph Indigenous Cultural Capital: Postcolonial Narratives in Australian Children’s Literature was one of the three books shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) “Alvie Egan Award” in 2019 for “the best first book of literary scholarship by an early career researcher (ECR) on an Australian subject, published in the preceding two calendar years”. The ASAL judges commended this book for making “a substantial contribution to research in the still neglected area of Australian children’s literature”.
Awarded date
2019
Degree of recognition
National
Granting Organisations
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature