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In this essay, Sheila Collingwood-Whittick states: 'Kate Grenville's The Secret River, an elegantly-written, meticulously-crafted and extremely readable novel, provides a classic example of white Australian anxiety and ambivalence over the nation's origins. More significantly perhaps, and in direct contradiction with the author's declarations about her book, The Secret River is paradigmatic both of the difficulty settler descendants have in facing some of the grim truths of colonial history, and of their consequent inability to exorcise the ghosts that haunt the national conscience.' (p. 126)
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The Haunting of Settler Australia : Kate Grenville's The Secret River
Subjects:
- The Secret River 2005 single work novel
- Searching for the Secret River 2006 single work criticism
- Uncanny Australia : Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation 1998 selected work criticism
- After The Dreaming : The 1968 Boyer Lectures 1969 single work criticism
- National Fictions : Literature, Film and the Construction of Australian Narrative 1986 single work criticism
- The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith 1972 single work novel
- Black Sheep : Journey to Borroloola 2002 single work prose
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