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Is part of A Dream More Luminous Than Love : The Yandilli Trilogy Rodney Hall , 1994 selected work novel (number 1 in series)
  • Author:agent Rodney Hall http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/hall-rodney
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 The Second Bridegroom
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'A young 19th-century English printer forges a document attributed to 15th-century William Caxton. Known only as FJ--the initials embedded in his forgery--the young printer is arrested and sent in fetters to New South Wales, shackled to an abusive fellow prisoner, Gabriel Dean. En route, Gabriel Dean subjects the young Englishman to unceasing abuse until FJ finally murders his tormentor. On arrival in New South Wales, FJ escapes from his master, Atholl, and disappears into the cover of surrounding jungle. Taken under the protective care of a group of aborigines, FJ recovers his health and witnesses the murder of Atholl. Further improbabilities result in the reappearance of Gabriel Dean--not dead after all--who drags FJ back to Atholl's camp, and FJ's final escape from the authorities. An old-fashioned adventure tale, in short, decked out in lyrical prose and brought up to date with a sensitive view of aboriginal culture.'

Source: Kirkus Reviews 1991

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Alternative title: Der zweite Brautigam
Language: German
    • Frankfurt am Main,
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      Germany,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       S. Fischer Verlag ,       1993 .
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      Extent: 253p.
      ISBN: 3100294041
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Works about this Work

'White Aboriginals' : White Australian Literary Responses to the Challenge of Indigenous Histories Russell West-Pavlov , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Imaginary Antipodes : Essays on Contemporary Australian Literature and Culture 2011; (p. 71-86) 'Chapter 4 examines the phenomenon of the 'white Aboriginal,' a putative figure of cultural synthesis as proclaimed in Germaine Greer's maverick manifesto Whitefella Jump Up (2003). However, in texts such as Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves (1976) and David Malouf's Remembering Babylon (1993), Liam Davison's The White Woman (1994), and Stephen Gray's The Artist is a Thief (2001), the 'white Aborigine' figure progressively modulates into a sign of appropriation rather than of reconciliation.' (From author's introduction, 12)
The Postcolonial Screen : Elaborate Forgeries in Rodney Hall’s The Second Bridegroom Peter Mathews , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 237-253)
Australian Literature and the Making of History Paul Sharrad , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lemuria , Winter vol. 1 no. 1 2006; (p. 55-74) Sharrad in this essay discusses a wide range of Australian fiction with attention to its negotiations with history. Sharrad says that the struggle of the writers he examines 'has been both to recover and reject history' (72-73). Through fiction, history is brought to life but 'lest we become trapped by the tyranny of the past, the writer has also to perform literary exorcisms that will free the future from the hauntings which currently still visit the Australian national present' (73).
Myopic Visions : Rodney Hall's The Second Bridegroom Sigrun Meinig , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Towards a Transcultural Future : Literature and Society in a 'Post'-Colonial World [2] 2005; (p. 169-176)
Rodney Hall : Exploring the Land in the Mind Paul Genoni , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Subverting the Empire : Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction 2004; (p. 195-237)
Wide Horizons of Summer Reading Rod Moran , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , December 1991 and vol. 6 no. 12 , January vol. 7 no. 1 1992; (p. 18-19)
— Review of The Second Bridegroom Rodney Hall , 1991 single work novel ; Master of the Ghost Dreaming Mudrooroo , 1991 single work novel ; Olga Masters : A Lot of Living : The Compelling Biography of this Much-Loved Writer Julie Lewis , 1991 single work biography ; God's Fool : The Life and Poetry of Francis Webb Michael Joseph Griffith , 1991 selected work criticism biography ; A Boy's Life Jack Davis , 1991 single work autobiography ; North Life Frank Cousens , 1991 single work autobiography
Paperback Looks at Family's Move to Modernity Louise Kennedy , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 March 1992; (p. 22)
— Review of What God Wants Lily Brett , 1991 selected work short story ; The Second Bridegroom Rodney Hall , 1991 single work novel ; Things Could Be Worse Lily Brett , 1999 selected work short story
Australian Circles Jonathan Coe , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: London Review of Books , 12 September vol. 13 no. 17 1991; (p. 12)
— Review of The Tax Inspector Peter Carey , 1991 single work novel ; The Second Bridegroom Rodney Hall , 1991 single work novel
The Past - Is There Any Future in It? Reba Gostand , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , April vol. 11 no. 1 1992; (p. 67-68)
— Review of Usher Matthew Condon , 1991 single work novel ; Cornucopia County : Satiric Tales David A. Myers , 1991 selected work short story ; The Second Bridegroom Rodney Hall , 1991 single work novel ; Australia Street : A Boy's Eye View of the 1920s and 1930s John Kingsmill , 1991 single work autobiography ; Millennium : Time-Pieces by Australian Writers 1991 anthology short story prose extract
Three Post-Colonial Novels: Fiction and a Political Conscience Elizabeth Perkins , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 19 no. 1 1992; (p. 143-149)
— Review of The Country Without Music Nicholas Hasluck , 1990 single work novel ; The Second Bridegroom Rodney Hall , 1991 single work novel ; In a Wilderness of Mirrors Ric Throssell , 1992 single work novel
Framing History: Photography in Rodney Hall's 'Yandilli Trilogy' Sigrun Meinig , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 16 no. 1 2002; (p. 29-33)
Rodney Hall : Exploring the Land in the Mind Paul Genoni , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Subverting the Empire : Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction 2004; (p. 195-237)
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Myopic Visions : Rodney Hall's The Second Bridegroom Sigrun Meinig , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Towards a Transcultural Future : Literature and Society in a 'Post'-Colonial World [2] 2005; (p. 169-176)
Australian Literature and the Making of History Paul Sharrad , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lemuria , Winter vol. 1 no. 1 2006; (p. 55-74) Sharrad in this essay discusses a wide range of Australian fiction with attention to its negotiations with history. Sharrad says that the struggle of the writers he examines 'has been both to recover and reject history' (72-73). Through fiction, history is brought to life but 'lest we become trapped by the tyranny of the past, the writer has also to perform literary exorcisms that will free the future from the hauntings which currently still visit the Australian national present' (73).
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