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'A young 19th-century English printer forges a document attributed to 15th-century William Caxton. Known only as FJ--the initials embedded in his forgery--the young printer is arrested and sent in fetters to New South Wales, shackled to an abusive fellow prisoner, Gabriel Dean. En route, Gabriel Dean subjects the young Englishman to unceasing abuse until FJ finally murders his tormentor. On arrival in New South Wales, FJ escapes from his master, Atholl, and disappears into the cover of surrounding jungle. Taken under the protective care of a group of aborigines, FJ recovers his health and witnesses the murder of Atholl. Further improbabilities result in the reappearance of Gabriel Dean--not dead after all--who drags FJ back to Atholl's camp, and FJ's final escape from the authorities. An old-fashioned adventure tale, in short, decked out in lyrical prose and brought up to date with a sensitive view of aboriginal culture.'
Source: Kirkus Reviews 1991
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Book 1 of the Yandilli Trilogy
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'White Aboriginals' : White Australian Literary Responses to the Challenge of Indigenous Histories
2011
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— Appears in: Imaginary Antipodes : Essays on Contemporary Australian Literature and Culture 2011; (p. 71-86) 'Chapter 4 examines the phenomenon of the 'white Aboriginal,' a putative figure of cultural synthesis as proclaimed in Germaine Greer's maverick manifesto Whitefella Jump Up (2003). However, in texts such as Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves (1976) and David Malouf's Remembering Babylon (1993), Liam Davison's The White Woman (1994), and Stephen Gray's The Artist is a Thief (2001), the 'white Aborigine' figure progressively modulates into a sign of appropriation rather than of reconciliation.' (From author's introduction, 12)
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The Postcolonial Screen : Elaborate Forgeries in Rodney Hall’s The Second Bridegroom
2010
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— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 237-253) -
Australian Literature and the Making of History
2006
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— Appears in: Lemuria , Winter vol. 1 no. 1 2006; (p. 55-74) Sharrad in this essay discusses a wide range of Australian fiction with attention to its negotiations with history. Sharrad says that the struggle of the writers he examines 'has been both to recover and reject history' (72-73). Through fiction, history is brought to life but 'lest we become trapped by the tyranny of the past, the writer has also to perform literary exorcisms that will free the future from the hauntings which currently still visit the Australian national present' (73). -
Myopic Visions : Rodney Hall's The Second Bridegroom
2005
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— Appears in: Towards a Transcultural Future : Literature and Society in a 'Post'-Colonial World [2] 2005; (p. 169-176) -
Rodney Hall : Exploring the Land in the Mind
2004
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— Appears in: Subverting the Empire : Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction 2004; (p. 195-237)
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Wide Horizons of Summer Reading
1992
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— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , December 1991 and vol. 6 no. 12 , January vol. 7 no. 1 1992; (p. 18-19)
— Review of The Second Bridegroom 1991 single work novel ; Master of the Ghost Dreaming 1991 single work novel ; Olga Masters : A Lot of Living : The Compelling Biography of this Much-Loved Writer 1991 single work biography ; God's Fool : The Life and Poetry of Francis Webb 1991 selected work criticism biography ; A Boy's Life 1991 single work autobiography ; North Life 1991 single work autobiography -
Paperback Looks at Family's Move to Modernity
1992
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 March 1992; (p. 22)
— Review of What God Wants 1991 selected work short story ; The Second Bridegroom 1991 single work novel ; Things Could Be Worse 1999 selected work short story -
Australian Circles
1991
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— Appears in: London Review of Books , 12 September vol. 13 no. 17 1991; (p. 12)
— Review of The Tax Inspector 1991 single work novel ; The Second Bridegroom 1991 single work novel -
The Past - Is There Any Future in It?
1992
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— Appears in: Social Alternatives , April vol. 11 no. 1 1992; (p. 67-68)
— Review of Usher 1991 single work novel ; Cornucopia County : Satiric Tales 1991 selected work short story ; The Second Bridegroom 1991 single work novel ; Australia Street : A Boy's Eye View of the 1920s and 1930s 1991 single work autobiography ; Millennium : Time-Pieces by Australian Writers 1991 anthology short story prose extract -
Three Post-Colonial Novels: Fiction and a Political Conscience
1992
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— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 19 no. 1 1992; (p. 143-149)
— Review of The Country Without Music 1990 single work novel ; The Second Bridegroom 1991 single work novel ; In a Wilderness of Mirrors 1992 single work novel -
Framing History: Photography in Rodney Hall's 'Yandilli Trilogy'
2002
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— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 16 no. 1 2002; (p. 29-33) -
Rodney Hall : Exploring the Land in the Mind
2004
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— Appears in: Subverting the Empire : Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction 2004; (p. 195-237) - y Identitatskrisen und unentschiedene ethnische Identitat : das Individuum im Spannungsfeld zweier Kulturkreise vor dem Hintergrund verschiedener Epochen der Besiedlungsgeschichte Australiens, dargestellt in der jungsten australischen Erzahlliteratur Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang , 1998 Z1157544 1998 single work criticism
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Myopic Visions : Rodney Hall's The Second Bridegroom
2005
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— Appears in: Towards a Transcultural Future : Literature and Society in a 'Post'-Colonial World [2] 2005; (p. 169-176) -
Australian Literature and the Making of History
2006
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— Appears in: Lemuria , Winter vol. 1 no. 1 2006; (p. 55-74) Sharrad in this essay discusses a wide range of Australian fiction with attention to its negotiations with history. Sharrad says that the struggle of the writers he examines 'has been both to recover and reject history' (72-73). Through fiction, history is brought to life but 'lest we become trapped by the tyranny of the past, the writer has also to perform literary exorcisms that will free the future from the hauntings which currently still visit the Australian national present' (73).
Awards
- 1992 winner ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal
- 1992 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
- New South Wales,
- 1800-1899