'The destinies of two families, black and white, are fatally interwoven... in this frontier novel. Racial brutality and the tragic account of the Myall Creek massacre underscore the story of Ginny and Wollumbuy, Kamilaroi people of Warrumbungle Range. Mysterious killings follow the arrival Karl and Gundrun Maresch, a German couple who establish a Lutheran mission near the young settlement of Coonabarabran.' (Source: Publisher's blurb)
Notes
Dedication: To my wife Roslyn my daughter Tanya and son James my (late) / father, Jack; my mother, Anne my brothers: John, (late) Kevin, Roderick, Gregory / my sisters: Elaine, Lynne.
Preamble by Phillip McLaren, September, 1992 (pp. vii-viii)
Sex Encounters of the Strange Kind : Forms of Postcolonial Discourse in Three Australian NovelsXavierPons,
2006single work criticism — Appears in:
Commonwealth,Autumnvol.
29no.
12006;Messengers of Eros : Representations of Sex in Australian Writing2009;'The paper focuses on scenes from three Australian novels ... . Through an analysis of the representation of sexual intercourse by the three novelists, the paper highlights the sense of strangeness associated with the postcolonial, born out of the colonists' feeling that they do not truly belong to their adopted land and must force themselves upon it. Sex, which can be an expression of love, here degenerates into lust, violence or parody. It becomes an expression of the unnerving alienation which overcomes Europeans in a postcolonial context. Sex here as a struggle for domination is a paradigm of the perverted human relations which are inherent in the postcolonial condition. In his own fashion, and through a variety of narrative modes, each of the three (male) novelists illustrates the unbearable strangeness of being in an alien land.' (47)
'A Vision through the Smoky Haze' : Viewing Corroboree in Selected Australian NovelsMelinda RoseJewell,
2005single work criticism — Appears in:
Australian Studies,vol.
20no.
1&22005;"Fiction portraying the experiences of Australian Indigenous people often contains depictions of the 'corroboree'. This representation commonly conveys a scenario in which Indigenous people dance while being watched by white spectators. This establishes a relationship between seeing and knowing that locates power in the hands of the white observers. Later in this century, both non-Indigenous, then more typically Indigenous authors, deconstruct the power structures at work in these portrayals." (31)
