![]() ![]() ![]() In the novel the white-settler’s experience of owning a land has been countered by the muted voice of speaking Aborigines as well as of speaking place. Indigenous people are able to create, re-create and assert their places in which their cultures and ethnic identities survive by way of challenging colonial authority over their lands. The colonial connotation of terra nullius in disguise of the early settlers tried to own the mythic land of natives but failed spiritually. This fictional history of Grenville deals with the Aboriginal places not only as concrete locations, but also as community memories- more of an Aboriginal psychological landscape. Readers marvelled at the subtlety of its language, and the power of Grenville’s story-telling. Responding to postcolonial scholarship, which focuses on the violence of colonialism on indigenous people and also on the unsung voices of speaking or writing back, I envisage studying Kate Grenville’s Australian-Aboriginal novel The Secret River (2005). Kate Grenville’s novel The Secret River moved and exhilarated many people when it was first published in 2005. Colonialisation, displacement, dislocation- these are the theoretical bedrocks of postcolonial literary critique in Australia. Abstract Reams of words have already been written on Australian Aborigine and their land. ![]()
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