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- Title
Historical Patterns in The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow and The TallMan.
- Authors
Molloy, Diane
- Abstract
An essay is presented which analysis two texts about the people of Palm Island in Queensland, Australia. The texts are: Thea Astley's novel "The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow," and Chloe Hooper's non-fictional "The Tall Man." It is stated that both texts tell a story about an event on Palm Island through narrative imagination. It mentions that the fictional and the non-fictional text describe the continuing divide between Aboriginal and white Australians in terms of culture and justice.
- Subjects
GREAT Palm Island (Qld.); AUSTRALIA; INDIGENOUS Australians; RACISM; TALL Man, The (Book); MULTIPLE Effects of Rainshadow, The (Book); ABORIGINAL Australians; WHITE people
- Publication
Australian Literary Studies, 2013, Vol 28, Issue 3, p84
- ISSN
0004-9697
- Publication type
Essay