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Byrne discusses Carey's novel as being essentially an exploration of the process of fictional writing, inviting the reader to think about what underlies the process of selectivity involved in creating stories.
Bowden describes ways in which Aboriginal English 'contains a grammatical, phonological and lexicosemantic history of language colonisation in Australia', and examines some of the the ways in which Aboriginal English is used in the writings of Indigenous authors.