This book takes as its subject a body of recent fiction by white liberal writers produced in the wake of the profound cultural, political and legal transformations that have taken place in the field of Indigenous rights since the 1990s. The novels explored in this study are Alex Miller's Journey to the Stone Country (2002) and Landscape of Farewell (2007), Andrew McGahan's The White Earth (2004), Kate Grenville's The Secret River (2005) and Gail Jones' Sorry (2007). Each of these novels was written in the period between 2002 and 2007. These were the years when the Indigenous rights and...
This book takes as its subject a body of recent fiction by white liberal writers produced in the wake of the profound cultural, political and legal...