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In his critical analysis of Aboriginal writing in Australia, Mudrooroo Narogin challenges Thomas Keneally:
If a Patrick White, a Thomas Keneally, a Dorothy Hewett decides to write about Aborigines, after they have done with them, they are discarded. The fringe after all is but a subject for their literary skills, it is not the reality which confronts them each and every day.1
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Bain Attwood, The Making of the Aborigines (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1989), chap. 6.
T. Keneally, Outback ( London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983 ), p. 14.
T. Keneally, Bullie’s House (Sydney: Currency Press, 1981), p. xviii.
A. Shoemaker, Black Words, White Page: Aboriginal Literature 1929–1988 ( Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1989 ), p. 201.
B. Ashcroft, G. Griffiths and H. Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literatures ( London and New York: Routledge, 1989 ), pp. 172–3.
T. Keneally, Towards Asmara ( London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1989 ), p. 240.
T. Keneally, Flying Hero Class ( London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1991 ), p. 145.
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Vernon, D. (2000). ‘The Limits of Goodwill’: the Values and Dangers of Revisionism in Keneally’s ‘Aboriginal’ Novels. In: Bery, A., Murray, P. (eds) Comparing Postcolonial Literatures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599550_13
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