“There is a thread beginning with my grandmother Adelaide and traveling through my father and arriving at me. That thread is flight” (335). It is telling that the identity of the Beet Queen is not revealed until the final section… Read More ›
postcolonial fiction
Analysis of Thomas Keneally’s The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Winner of the Heinemann Award in 1973 and the basis of an effective 1978 film adaptation, this novel is a tale of cultural conflict in Australia between descendants of English colonialism and an Aborigine who tries and fails to become… Read More ›
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