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- Title
Owning A Fragile Hold: Claim of The Muted Voice in Kate Grenville's The Secret River.
- Authors
Rakshit, Utpal
- Abstract
Reams of words have already been written on Australian Aborigine and their land. Colonialisation, displacement, dislocation- these are the theoretical bedrocks of postcolonial literary critique in Australia. Responding to postcolonial scholarship, which focuses on the violence of colonialism on indigenous people and also on the unsung voices of speaking or writing back, I envisage studying Kate Grenville's Australian-Aboriginal novel The Secret River (2005). This fictional history of Grenville deals with the Aboriginal places not only as concrete locations, but also as community memories- more of an Aboriginal psychological landscape. The colonial connotation of terra nullius in disguise of the early settlers tried to own the mythic land of natives but failed spiritually. Indigenous people are able to create, recreate and assert their places in which their cultures and ethnic identities survive by way of challenging colonial authority over their lands. In the novel the white-settler's experience of owning a land has been countered by the muted voice of speaking Aborigines as well as of speaking place.
- Subjects
ABORIGINAL Australian literature; SECRET River, The (Book); GRENVILLE, Kate, 1950-; ABORIGINAL Australians in literature; INDIGENOUS peoples in literature; POSTCOLONIAL literature
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2014, Vol 5, Issue 3, p169
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Article