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Alternative title: Catalysts of Change: Colonial Transformations of Anglo-European Literary Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... vol. 23 no. 3 September 2020 of Postcolonial Studies est. 1988- Postcolonial Studies
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Fiction and Fakements in Colonial Australia, Jonathan Lamb , single work criticism

'The imaginations of convicts in Australia became attuned to the pairing of opposites and this led to strange tensions in their way of representing things. On Norfolk Island the meanings of words were reversed, so that ‘good’ meant ‘bad’ and ‘ugly’ meant ‘beautiful’. This undermining of official meanings produced the argot called the ‘flash’ or ‘kiddy’ language of the colony. Designed at first to keep private sentiments from being inspected, it eventually supported a system of dissident actions called ‘cross-work’ or ‘cross doings’. One word loomed large amidst these inversions: ‘fakement’, meaning booty, forgery or deceit. The verb has more extensive meanings: rob, wound, shatter; ‘fake your slangs’ means break your shackles. It also meant performing a fiction and accepting the consequences of it.' (Publication abstract)

(p. 360-370)

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