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Kate Grenville’s The Secret River as Contextualizing Historical Experience in Australia

Amudha E., M.A., M.Phil., B.Ed., Ph.D. Research Scholar


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Abstract

This paper attempts how human beings understand their land in a select novel of Kate Grenville, namely, The Secret River. Her novels present different aspects of understanding the land. The researcher has tried to describe Grenville’s The Secret River in various positions, especially nationalism, colonialism, and transnationalism. The novel ultimately fits a post-colonial framework though all the ideologies are present too. The paper first attempts to study the various perspectives that surround the broad area of Australian settlements and literature. Of these the most dominating ideology is nationalism which is present in all her novels.

Keywords: Kate Grenville, The Secret River, Journey, Colonialism, Post-Colonial, Transnationalism, Nationalism, Negotiation.

Introduction

Kate Grenville is one of the most eminent and celebrated Australian novelists. She is famous for her historical novels. She was born in a domicile which was replenished with books in Sydney in 1950. She was deeply stimulated by her father’s gift for storytelling. From her childhood, she knew that she wanted to be a writer. She majored in English literature at the University of Sydney.

Kate Grenville locates her novels in Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries before the advent of the ideology of stolen generation (the Aboriginal people forcibly removed from their families as children between the 1900s and the 1960s, to be brought up by white foster families or in institutions, definition in https://www.google.com. Her novels describe the pioneering movements of the European settlers in Australia and New Zealand. These books encouraged writers to negotiate with indigenous peoples all over the land. In each of her novels, Grenville makes an attempt to understand the psyche of European settlers and indigenous peoples.

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Amudha E., M.A., M.Phil., B.Ed., Ph.D. Research Scholar
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Bharathi Women’s College, Chennai-600108
Tamilnadu, India
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