'Chapter 4 examines the phenomenon of the 'white Aboriginal,' a putative figure of cultural synthesis as proclaimed in Germaine Greer's maverick manifesto
Whitefella Jump Up (2003). However, in texts such as Patrick White's
A Fringe of Leaves (1976) and David Malouf's
Remembering Babylon (1993), Liam Davison's
The White Woman (1994), and Stephen Gray's
The Artist is a Thief (2001), the 'white Aborigine' figure progressively modulates into a sign of appropriation rather than of reconciliation.' (From author's introduction, 12)