Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
- The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- 1 Presencing
- 2 Literary Visitors and the Australian Novel
- 3 Settler Colonial Fictions
- 4 White Writing, Indigenous Australia, and the Chronotopes of the Settler Novel
- 5 Mabo, Mob, and the Novel
- 6 Publishing the Australian Novel
- Part II Authorships
- Part III Futures
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
5 - Mabo, Mob, and the Novel
from Part I - Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2023
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
- The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- 1 Presencing
- 2 Literary Visitors and the Australian Novel
- 3 Settler Colonial Fictions
- 4 White Writing, Indigenous Australia, and the Chronotopes of the Settler Novel
- 5 Mabo, Mob, and the Novel
- 6 Publishing the Australian Novel
- Part II Authorships
- Part III Futures
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
Summary
This chapter contests the prevailing interpretation of the post-Mabo turn as a decisive new era in Australian cultural history. While the Mabo High Court decision of 1992 was an important milestone in struggles for Indigenous land rights, the insistence on this date as a literary periodization neglects the continuities in settler culture that still structure settler fiction in Australia. Alternatively, recent First Nations fiction suggests possibilities within and outside dominant paradigms of legality.
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel , pp. 83 - 95Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023