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'All of Peter Carey's novels as well as many of the short stories, I shall argue, engage in a decolonizing programme. If one were to read all of Carey's books in one sitting, one of the mandates of postcolonialism, namely to 'decolonize the mind' (phrase coined by Ngugi wa Thiont'o), would emerge as one of the writer's primary concerns...The stories Carey tells provide evidence of three successive generations of colonial overlords in Australia: the British Empire in colonial times; the United states, which took over cultural and economic overlordship after the British Empire collapsed; and multinational trusts (with moneyed interests from Japan and the United States) in what is technically speaking a postcolonial, but in reality a neo-colonial country. Spanning roughly one and a half centuries of Australian history, Carey's oeuvre thus gives a diachronical overview of the experience of a colonized culture.' (p 151)
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'Decolonizing the Mind' (I) : Colonial Australia
Subjects:
- Illywhacker 1985 single work novel
- Jack Maggs 1997 single work novel
- True History of the Kelly Gang 2000 single work novel
- My Life as a Fake 2003 single work novel
- The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith 1994 single work novel
- The Tax Inspector 1991 single work novel
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