Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Set Adrift: Identity and the Postcolonial Present in Gould's Book of Fish
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'This article presents a critical examination of the metafictional devices used by Richard Flanagan in developing a pointed fictional critique of postcolonial Tasmania in his novel Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish. Highlights Flanagan's insistence on developing and maintaining the postcolonial present as a place of literary intervention.' -- From the journal.

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  • Epigraph: We usually say that the fascinating presence of a thing obscures its meaning; here, the opposite is true: the meaning obscures the terrifying impact of its presence. -- Slavoj Zizek, The Sublime Object of Ideology

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