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Author's abstract: Rewriting Dickens's Great Expectations through Jack Maggs, Carey revisits the English literary heritage and the values of nineteenth-century England. This paper examines how Carey reconsiders that tradition and, from his postcolonial position, questions Britain's cultural and social heritage to present Australia as a new haven offering redemption and regeneration, the possibility of overcoming the haunting heritage of one's origins and past, which allegorically refers to the former colony itself (63).
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Heritage in Peter Carey's 'Jack Maggs'

Subjects:
- Jack Maggs 1997 single work novel
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cUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
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cAustralia,c
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