V 17 N 2
Fall 2011

Special Issue:
Millenial Postcolonial Australia

Guest Editors:
Rebecca Weaver-Hightower and Nathanael O'Reilly

Articles
Title		Author	Page
Introduction: Millenial Postcolonial Australia		Rebecca Weaver-Hightower and Nathanael O’Reilly	3
Reading The Secret River		Marguerite Nolan and Robert Clarke	9
Postcolonial Impressions in Jonathan Bennett’s Verandah People		Peter Mathews	26
History as Sharing Stories: Crossing the Cultural Divide Through Kim Scott’s Fiction		Caterina Colomba	39
Literary Doubles and Colonial Subjectivity: Brian Castro’s The Garden Book		Marilyne Brun	57
Beneath the Camouflage: Mimicry and Settler False Consciousness in the Fiction of Murray Bail		Michael Ackland	72
Book Review Essays
"Speaking Personally"		Gillian Whitlock	93
	A Revealed Life. Australian Writers and Their Journeys in Memoir, edited by Julianne Schultz
	The Well in the Shadow: A Writer’s Journey through Australian Literature, by Chester Eagle.
	The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and Their Writers, edited by C.A. Cranston and Robert Zeller
	Creative Lives: Personal Papers of Australian Writers and Artists, by Penelope Hanley
"Indigenous Australia: Historical and Contemporary Scholarship"		Lyn McCredden	102
	Macquarie Pen Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, edited by Anita Heiss and Peter Minter
	Writing Never Arrives Naked: Early Aboriginal Cultures of Writing in Australia, by Penelope Van Toorn
"'True Blue' Crimes and Other Infamous Aussie Yarns"		John Scott	112
	Mad, Bad, and Mysterious: Murder Rape and Pillage in Australia, edited by Malcolm Brown
	True and Infamous Crimes of Australia and New Zealand, by Alan L. Peters and A.L. Seaford
	Deadlier Than the Male: Australia’s Most Notorious Female Criminals, by Adrian Tame
"Adrift but Within Sight of the Shore: Criticism of Australian Film"		Theodore Sheckels	125
	Shining a Light: 50 Years of the Australian Film Institute, by Lisa French and Mark Poole
	The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand, edited by Geoff Mayer and Keith Beattie
	Film in Australia: An Introduction, by Albert Moran and Errol Vieth
	Diasporas of Australian Cinema, edited by Catherine Simpson, Renata Murawska, and Anthony Lambert
	Australian Film, by Saskia Vanderbent

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