Read Jenny Stewart’s Quadrant article here.
THINKING
- How does ‘The Secret River’s version of history differ to that recounted by historians?
- How does the Jewish word ‘midrash’ apply to the writing of ‘The Secret River’?
- Stewart argues that guilt may be a stage. If so, what comes next?
- Do you agree with Stewart’s view that ‘Multicultural Australia’ knows little of indigenous Australians’? What implications does this have for Australia and our Australian identity?
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