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'The relationship between history and literature is symbiotic, particularly in the context of building foundational myths about a relatively new nation-state. In Australia, with barely two hundred years of white settlement compared to an estimated sixty thousand years of Indigenous occupation, discussions about the colonial encounter have an immediate political relevance to both political and artistic representations of Indigenous people.
This chapter links the contentious issues in the preambles written for the Australian constitution during the 1999 campaign for a Republic with the current state of the historical novel in Australia' (p. 233)
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233-244
'Relaxed and Comfortable' : Carey, Grenville and the Politics of the History Novel
Subjects:
- True History of the Kelly Gang 2000 single work novel
- The Secret River 2005 single work novel
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