Australian Literary Studies, May 1st, 1999
Australian author Thea Astley has dealt with traces of colonial history in her novels since 1974's 'A Kindness Cup.' She raises questions about memory and the impact of history on contemporary Australian and Pacific cultures. She emphasizes the devastation to indigenous people caused by colonialism, and the refusal of former colonial powers to acknowledge the effects of the devastation.
Disaster left its stain, its ghosts.
(Astley, The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow 199)
Throughout much of her writing career Thea Astley has been concerned with the traces of colonial history. In novels like ...
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