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'Peter Carey's novel True History of the Kelly Gang negotiates the multiple and contradictory meanings that Ned Kelly's historical record brings about. The figure of Ned Kelly brings to the fore the ethical dimensions of revisiting and questioning one of the best-known myths of the nation' (71).

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    y separately published work icon Commonwealth Commonwealth : Essays and Studies vol. 27 no. 2 Spring 2005 Z1275874 2005 periodical issue 2005 pg. 71-85
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