Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage: Making and Unmaking the Postcolonial Novel
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • A Note on Style
  • Introduction: Making and Unmaking the Postcolonial Historical Novel
  • 1 Genre Memory: Australian Historical Novels in Context
  • Postcolonial Provocations: Old and New Approaches to Genre
  • Intercultural Representation: Intergeneric Strategies in Eugene's Falls and Beyond
  • 2 Intertextuality and the Postcolonial Novel of History.
  • Recent Explorations of Intertextuality and Heteroglossia: The Influence of Benang and That Deadman Dance
  • Theories of Intertextuality and the Postcolonial Context
  • Intertextuality and Intercultural Subjectivity: Australian Contexts
  • 3 Elision and Engagement: Writing Indigeneity in Post-Bicentennial Historical Novels
  • New Speech Genres: Portrayals of Indigeneity in White Writing 1989-2000
  • Out of the Impasse? Re-thinking Intercultural Engagement and Subject-Positions
  • 4 Postmodern Rats in the Ranks: The Novelist and the Historian as Raiders of the Colonial Archive.
  • The Trouble with History: Scaling the Archive
  • Ideology and Politics: A Background to the History Wars
  • The Novelist in the Archive: Kate Grenville's The Secret River Trilogy and Kim Scott's Benang and That Deadman Dance
  • White-Gloved Border Police: Archival Custody and the Protection of History
  • Whose Treasure? Clendinnen's Reef and the Wreck of the Postcolonial Novel
  • 5 Speaking in Tongues: The Novelist as Historiographic Fool
  • Historiographic Metafiction as Postmodern, Postcolonial Intervention.
  • Metafictional Conceits in Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang and Robert Drewe's Our Sunshine
  • Metafictional Tactics in Eugene's Falls
  • Focalization and Radical Polyphony in Recent Postcolonial Historical Novels
  • Learning from Scott and Carey: Polyphony, Translation, and Mistranslation in the Postcolonial Novel
  • 6 Writing South of South: Extinction Discourse in Novelizations of Tasmanian Colonial Pasts
  • Roving History: Intercultural Representation in the Novels of Rohan Wilson
  • Eden Unsettled: Parody and Post-Gothicism in Matthew Kneale's English Passengers.
  • Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish: History and Story in the Postmodern Acquarium
  • Conclusion: Beyond the Dry Dock
  • Appendix 1: Postcolonial/Post-Colonial Debates in Context
  • Appendix 2: Lessons in 'The Lost Garden': A First-Contact Tasmanian Historical Novel in Progress
  • Works Cited
  • Index.