Captivating Fictions

Authors

  • Susan K. Martin The University of Sydney

Keywords:

W. I. Thrower, Cataract Gorge, captivity narratives

Abstract

The paper discusses Mrs W. I. Thrower's novel Younah!: A Tasmanian Aboriginal Romance of the Cataract Gorge a captivity narrative that creates a romantic history of place for the non-Aboriginal population that makes its central figure, the white girl captured by Aboriginal people, into a textual intercessor between the white reader and the native landscape.

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Published

2013-02-13

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1997: Land and Identity: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference

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How to Cite

Captivating Fictions. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 149-154. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9523