Convicts, Coolies and Colonialism: reorienting the prisoner-of-war narrative

Authors

  • Frances De Groen University of Western Sydney

Keywords:

convictism, prisoners of war, Second World War

Abstract

The paper reads Second world war prisoner narratives in the context of convictism and Robinson Crusoe.

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Published

2013-01-26

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2000: Australian Literary Studies in the 21st Century

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Convicts, Coolies and Colonialism: reorienting the prisoner-of-war narrative. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 86-94. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9594