Thomas Keneally’s The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and the Palimpsest of Jimmy Governor
In The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Keneally rewrites the story of the Jimmy Governor murders and manhunt, a significant episode in white/Aboriginal race relations in Australia that took place at the turn of the twentieth century. In his narrative, Keneally attempts to eliminate the colonial discours...
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| フォーマット: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 言語: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | In The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Keneally rewrites the story of the Jimmy Governor murders and manhunt, a significant episode in white/Aboriginal race relations in Australia that took place at the turn of the twentieth century. In his narrative, Keneally attempts to eliminate the colonial discourse which underlay contemporary press accounts of the story and to retell it ‘objectively’, from the enlightened perspective of the 1970s, when white attitudes to the Aborigines began to change radically. This article examines and attempts to explain his successes and failures in this undertaking. |
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