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Units Teaching this Work
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The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
Ringwood
New York (City)
:
Viking
,
1996
Z287862
1996
single work
novel
historical fiction
(taught in 1 units)
'Tracing the lead-up to and aftermath of a bloody showdown when the superintendent of a Queensland mission goes on a murderous rampage. 'In 1930 the superintendent of a mission on a Queensland island, driven mad by his wife’s death, goes on a murderous rampage. Fearing for their lives, the other whites arm a young Indigenous man and order him to shoot Uncle Boss dead. 'The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow traces the lead-up to this bloody showdown and the repercussions in the years after - for Aboriginal people and the colonial overseers.' (Publication summary) |
Postcolonial Narratives | James Cook University | 2010 (Semester 2) |