Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 This Prison This Language : Thomas Watling's Letters from an Exile at Botany-Bay (1794)
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Ross Gibson argues that Watling's text can be read 'to understand some of the complicated issues of subjectivity and creativity in a colonial situation' (4).

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  • Gibson's article reproduces Watling's Letters, transcribed from the British Library copy of the 1794 publication.

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