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1 Inheriting the Past : Peter Corris's 'The Journal of Fletcher Christian' and Peter Carey's 'True History of the Kelly Gang' Lisa Fletcher , Elizabeth Mead , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , vol. 45 no. 2 2010; (p. 189-206) Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang and Peter Corris's The Journal of Fletcher Christian are historical novels, which emerge from quite different Australian cultural fields (Literature and popular fiction), but reading them alongside each other reveals fundamental similarities in their politics of race, gender and sexuality. We argue that both novels use the symbolism of the male, colonizing body to grant legitimacy to their postcolonial settler audience. In both cases, this legitimacy takes the form of a fragment of 'true and secret' history which oppposes authorized accounts of famous historical lives and events (Australia's most famous bushranger, the British Empire's most famous mutineer). We focus, in particular, on the extent to which both novels imagine the voices of Kelly and Christian by exploiting the richly metaphorical relationship between the body as flesh and the body as text. [Authors' abstract, p. 189]
1 Untitled Elizabeth Mead , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , October no. 44 2005; (p. 77-79)
— Review of Fabulating Beauty : Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey 2005 anthology criticism
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