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A comparative study of how conflict is dealth with in the work of three African and three Australian novelists. The African novels discussed are: The Return by Yaw M. Boateng; Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o; and Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe.
Examines exile and bondage in Orlando Patterson's Die the Long Day, based on slavery in the West Indies in the eighteenth century, and Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life, based on the convict system in Australia.