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‘Australian history is a history of division. Lacking territorial borders to be defended against hostile peoples, we have made our own inner borders of class, gender and ethnicity. Without barriers of place, we have constructed divisions between city and country, Sydney and the bush, male and female, foreigners and native born, workers and masters. We have ruthlessly dispossessed the first peoples of this land and then attempted to confine them within the walls of reservations consigning them also to cultural and material deprivation. Besides these divisions there has been a further perceived division between the land and its European settlers. A constant theme in Australian fiction has been the attempt to find national narratives that will resolve these divisions. Henry Handel Richardson's The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1930) is a tragedy of border-crossings that leaves its central protagonist alienated both from old country and new. ’ (Introduction)
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Patrick White : Crossing the Boundaries
Subjects:
- The Aunt's Story 1948 single work novel
- The Tree of Man 1955 single work novel
- Voss : A Novel 1957 single work novel
- A Fringe of Leaves 1976 single work novel
- The Twyborn Affair 1979 single work novel
- Memoirs of Many in One 1986 single work novel
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