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Note to the Reader. This book is based on historical sources and uses factual information, but as it is a work of fiction, the result more than anything of my own imagination, historical parallels with actual people should be assumed only in their general and not particular sense. A list of books consulted while writing this novel appears at the end. Aboriginal men reading this novel are advised that material in the first part of Dyirra's narrative could be culturally sensitive and they may wish to avoid it. [Debra Adelaide]
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The Mabo Turn in Australian Fiction
Oxford
:
Peter Lang
,
2017
13852561
2017
multi chapter work
criticism
'This is the first in-depth, broad-based study of the impact of the Australian High Court’s landmark Mabo decision of 1992 on Australian fiction. More than any other event in Australia’s legal, political and cultural history, the Mabo judgement – which recognised indigenous Australians’ customary native title to land – challenged previous ways of thinking about land and space, settlement and belonging, race and relationships, and nation and history, both historically and contemporaneously. While Mabo’s impact on history, law, politics and film has been the focus of scholarly attention, the study of its influence on literature has been sporadic and largely limited to examinations of non-Aboriginal novels.
'Now, a quarter of a century after Mabo, this book takes a closer look at nineteen contemporary novels – including works by David Malouf, Alex Miller, Kate Grenville, Thea Astley, Tim Winton, Michelle de Kretser, Richard Flanagan, Alexis Wright and Kim Scott – in order to define and describe Australia’s literary imaginary as it reflects and articulates post-Mabo discourse today. Indeed, literature’s substantial engagement with Mabo’s cultural legacy – the acknowledgement of indigenous people’s presence in the land, in history, and in public affairs, as opposed to their absence – demands a re-writing of literary history to account for a “Mabo turn” in Australian fiction. ' (Publication summary)
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Reviews
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , July vol. 27 no. 1 1999; (p. 43)
— Review of Serpent Dust 1998 single work novel -
Reviews
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , July vol. 27 no. 1 1999; (p. 43)
— Review of Serpent Dust 1998 single work novel -
Historical Novel Recreates the Past
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 12 no. 2 1998; (p. 118)
— Review of Serpent Dust 1998 single work novel -
Untitled
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , Spring vol. 43 no. 3 1998; (p. 132-137)
— Review of Serpent Dust 1998 single work novel
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Reviews
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , July vol. 27 no. 1 1999; (p. 43)
— Review of Serpent Dust 1998 single work novel -
Love and a Time of Smallpox
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 24 January 1998; (p. 8)
— Review of Serpent Dust 1998 single work novel ; Theatre of Darkness : Lillian Nordica as Opera 1998 single work novel ; Vanity Fierce 1998 single work novel -
Books in Brief
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , February vol. 3 no. 1 1998; (p. 28)
— Review of Serpent Dust 1998 single work novel -
Raising the Dust
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14 February 1998; (p. 10)
— Review of Serpent Dust 1998 single work novel -
Intriguing Views of Our Shared Past
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 14 February 1998; (p. 9)
— Review of Serpent Dust 1998 single work novel -
Reviews
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , July vol. 27 no. 1 1999; (p. 43)
— Review of Serpent Dust 1998 single work novel -
y
The Mabo Turn in Australian Fiction
Oxford
:
Peter Lang
,
2017
13852561
2017
multi chapter work
criticism
'This is the first in-depth, broad-based study of the impact of the Australian High Court’s landmark Mabo decision of 1992 on Australian fiction. More than any other event in Australia’s legal, political and cultural history, the Mabo judgement – which recognised indigenous Australians’ customary native title to land – challenged previous ways of thinking about land and space, settlement and belonging, race and relationships, and nation and history, both historically and contemporaneously. While Mabo’s impact on history, law, politics and film has been the focus of scholarly attention, the study of its influence on literature has been sporadic and largely limited to examinations of non-Aboriginal novels.
'Now, a quarter of a century after Mabo, this book takes a closer look at nineteen contemporary novels – including works by David Malouf, Alex Miller, Kate Grenville, Thea Astley, Tim Winton, Michelle de Kretser, Richard Flanagan, Alexis Wright and Kim Scott – in order to define and describe Australia’s literary imaginary as it reflects and articulates post-Mabo discourse today. Indeed, literature’s substantial engagement with Mabo’s cultural legacy – the acknowledgement of indigenous people’s presence in the land, in history, and in public affairs, as opposed to their absence – demands a re-writing of literary history to account for a “Mabo turn” in Australian fiction. ' (Publication summary)
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