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Issue Details:
First known date:
2007...
vol.
42
no.
2
2007
of
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
est. 1965
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
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* Contents derived from the 2007 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Voicing the 'Great Australian Silence' : Kate Grenville's Narrative of Settlement in The Secret River,
single work
criticism
'This article examines the competing narratives of settlement in Kate Grenville's 2005 novel, The Secret River. On the one hand are Aboriginal stories of violent encounters with settlers that are transmitted orally and are unwritten and, on the other, are those European historical accounts that seek to legitimate Australian settlement.'
The article argues that Grenville's attempts to reconcile 'her own ancestor's implication in acts of Indigenous dispossession' with an acknowledgement of 'the strengths and courage' of acts of European settlement 'is fraught with complexities,' and 'open to ambiguities and to accusations of "whitewashing" the past' (7).
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'Hopelessly Adrift on Dreams of Homer' : Robert Dessaix's Corfu,
single work
criticism
'In Corfu, Robert Dessaix establishes a dialectic between myth and reality, the heroic and the ordinary, through the apt use of allusion: his novel is richly tinctured with Homer and Chekhov, Sappho and C.P. Cavafy' (37). Henrickson in this essay draws out and comments on the multiple layers of allusion through which Dessaix's novel works.
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