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'The final chapter in this section takes the international comparisons to White still further with Julie Mehta’s fascinating discussion of the postcolonial implications of the concept of abjection exemplified in the fate of the outcast and drawing on parallels between White’s Aboriginal fringe-dweller and victim Dubbo in Riders in the Chariot, Arundhati Roy’s persecuted and murdered outcast Velutha in The God of Small Things and Gemmy the rejected black/white man in David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon. The discussion, prosecuted with Mehta’s characteristic energy, mediates a vision of the body of the outcast as an eloquent accusation against the abuse of power, in seemingly civilised societies, and suggests White’s continuing influence in the dissemination of these ideas amongst writers and readers alike, well beyond Australia.' (Introduction xxi)
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Smelly Martyrs : Patrick White’s Dubbo Ushers in Roy’s Velutha and Malouf’s Gemmy
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