Cirrus@Austlit

In his introduction, Ross writes, 'reading Voss changed my life' (48). Ross's study of White's fiction led him to read other Australian literature and to his becoming an 'Australian specialist,' who helped establish the North American journal Antipodes. His article asks a number of questions regarding the application of post-colonial theory to recent novels from post-colonial nations.

Brewster reads The Man from the Sunrise Side, looking at 'social technologies of recall,' including 'life writing, archival photos, Indigenous rock painting,' and Indigenous conceptions of land (85).

'The essay discusses the appropriations of the history and landscape of Tasmania, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and particularly by outsiders to the state, whether they are European or from the Australian mainland' (106). Pierce draws on the texts cited above, and on critical responses to these texts to demonstrate the conflicted experiences of departure from Tasmania and, in some cases, an equally unsettling return.

Carey comments on the positioning of his work within Australian, postcolonial, and Commonwealth literatures. He also comments on the use of history in fiction (True History of the Kelly Gang) and the relationship between Jack Maggs and Great Expectations.