Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Empathy for a Convict Conflicts with the Harsh Reality of Stolen Land: James Dunk Reviews ‘Cotter: A Novel’ by Richard Begbie
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'While the ‘convict stain’ has become a tired cliché in Australian history writing, it is a more interesting facet of Australian fiction. The fact that many of the early British colonists were criminals transported here against their will complicates the common colonial narratives and generalisations, as Kate Grenville showed in her immensely popular The Secret River (2005). Through Australian historical fiction, readers have become introduced the ‘good convict’ drawn into terrible acts of violence partly, because of the injustices of penal transportation.' (Introduction)

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