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By Nina Liewald

2008 used to be the yr of the 220th anniversary of everlasting white cost in Australia - a yr of party, yet no longer for all electorate. The iconography of Australia packaged for the vacationer is stuffed with Aboriginal motifs, however the ongoing debate approximately frontier clash, violence, dispossession and diverse interpretations of Indigenous rights and historical past exhibits the undiminished value and strength of these subject matters for Australian society. yet which literary solutions do Aboriginal and white authors supply to those matters and during which means do their interpretations fluctuate from the culture of colonial politics, historiography and anthropology, which has interpreted frontier clash by way of stereotypical categorizations of civilization and savagery for almost centuries? Nina Liewald explores the potential for modern Australian novels to query colonial dichotomies and bridge cultural divides and contextualizes them inside a literary and cultural framework. special narratological analyses provide an perception into the best way colonial stereotypes approximately faith, sexuality, violence, language and orality are represented, wondered or inverted. The so-called Australian "History Wars" - a primary controversy in regards to the interpretation of Australian heritage and Aboriginal rights that fuelled political debates from Paul Keating to John Howard - function an enormous reference aspect for the novels less than dialogue and exhibit the undiminished explosiveness of the topic.

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