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'The two novels this paper focuses on, Remembering Babylon and The Conversations at Curlow Creek, testify to David Malouf's ongoing 'dialogue with Australia'. Published in 1993 and 1996, two centuries after the arrival of the First Fleet of convicts, they engage with crucial issues in a postcolonial Australia which still has to negotiate its existential uncertainty. By returning to the first half of the nineteenth century, the narratives face the ghosts of the past which have haunted Australia, notably the stain of its origins as a penal colony: a sense of exile to the edge of the world is combined with the legacy of historical wrongs, the atrocities of the convict system and the devastating impact of colonization on the Aboriginal peoples - from dispossession to massacre or assimilationist policies which have engendered social alienation and spiritual dislocation.' (p. 270)
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David Malouf's Haunted Writing
Subjects:
- The Conversations at Curlow Creek 1996 single work novel
- Remembering Babylon 1993 single work novel
- The Return of the Native : An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon 1993 single work criticism
- The Empire Writes Back : Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures 1989 single work criticism
- Colonial and Postcolonial Literature : Migrant Metaphors 1995 multi chapter work criticism
- Robin Hood in Australia 1997 single work review
- Excavating Historical Guilt and Moral Failure in 'Remembering Babylon' : An Exploration of the Faultlines in White Australian Identity 1997 single work criticism
- Dark Side of the Dream : Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind 1991 selected work criticism
- Sheer Edge : Aspects of Identity in David Malouf's Writing 1991 single work criticism biography
- The Pain of Unbelonging : Alienation and Identity in Australasian Literature 2007 anthology criticism
- An Imaginary Life : A Novel 1978 single work novel
- David Malouf's "Voyaging Imagination" : The Conversation at Curlow Creek 2000 single work criticism
- Lugarno Postscript 1979 single work correspondence
- Inscribing the Emptiness : Cartography, Exploration and the Construction of Australia 1994 single work criticism
- Benang : From the Heart 1999 single work novel
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