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Miller's novel Journey to the Stone Country is set in the Urannah Valley in Northern Queensland, this valley is under threat from a project to dam the waters of the valley. Miller argues that the preservation of the Urannah Valley is important to our Australian identity, our civilisation, and to the acknowledgement of cultural differences. He also argues that fiction is relevant in discussions of the important issues facing our society as it "explores the individual's relationship to the great moral questions of the day."
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Old Testament Prophets and New Testament Saviours : Reading Retribution and Forgiveness towards Whiteness in Alex Miller’s Journey to the Stone Country
2012
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— Appears in: The Novels of Alex Miller : An Introduction 2012; (p. 170-186) 'In Journey to the Stone Country (2002), Alex Miller explores a national history in a regional setting, mapping a literary path towards reconciliation between black and white on what we may consider - and what he himself has described - as a place sacred to both Indigenous and European dreaming ('Sweet Water', 104). Yet Journey to the Stone Country is not only a literary journey. Contained within the literary of Miller's intricately drawn fictional world is the literal, the lived experiences of the character's real-life counterparts, whose stories inform the reconciliatory movements of the novel.' (From author's introduction 170) -
Continental Heartlands and Alex Miller’s Geosophical Imaginary
2012
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— Appears in: The Novels of Alex Miller : An Introduction 2012; (p. 125-138) This chapter examines 'how the alignment between geography and subjectivity operates in four of Miller's novels to identify his refiguration of the inherited map of modern identities.' (125)
McMahon focuses on The Ancestor Game (1992), Conditions of Faith (2000), Journey to the Stone Country (2002) and Landscape of Farewell (2007). -
Disestablished Worlds : An Introduction to the Novels of Alex Miller
2012
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— Appears in: The Novels of Alex Miller : An Introduction 2012; (p. 1-28)
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Disestablished Worlds : An Introduction to the Novels of Alex Miller
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Novels of Alex Miller : An Introduction 2012; (p. 1-28) -
Continental Heartlands and Alex Miller’s Geosophical Imaginary
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Novels of Alex Miller : An Introduction 2012; (p. 125-138) This chapter examines 'how the alignment between geography and subjectivity operates in four of Miller's novels to identify his refiguration of the inherited map of modern identities.' (125)
McMahon focuses on The Ancestor Game (1992), Conditions of Faith (2000), Journey to the Stone Country (2002) and Landscape of Farewell (2007). -
Old Testament Prophets and New Testament Saviours : Reading Retribution and Forgiveness towards Whiteness in Alex Miller’s Journey to the Stone Country
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Novels of Alex Miller : An Introduction 2012; (p. 170-186) 'In Journey to the Stone Country (2002), Alex Miller explores a national history in a regional setting, mapping a literary path towards reconciliation between black and white on what we may consider - and what he himself has described - as a place sacred to both Indigenous and European dreaming ('Sweet Water', 104). Yet Journey to the Stone Country is not only a literary journey. Contained within the literary of Miller's intricately drawn fictional world is the literal, the lived experiences of the character's real-life counterparts, whose stories inform the reconciliatory movements of the novel.' (From author's introduction 170)
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