The thesis is organised according to what I see as the text's most compelling and potentially subversive oppositional strategies. Jacobs call a "mutual (dis)possession" of its cultural and geographical spaces. The thesis argues that Carey's text works hard to affect a change to the white Australian reader's economy of desire, and to open up a space for an alternative mode of national belonging - one that replaces the "sorry" nation's discourse of atonement with what Ken Gelder and Jane M. Its arguments stem from two major theoretical underpinnings: Alan Lawson's Second World theory, which designates settler nations such as Australia as "suspended between 'mother' and 'other', simultaneously colonized and colonizing," and Ross Chambers' theory of narrative oppositionality in his book Room For Maneuver: Reading (the) Oppositional (in) Narrative. Adopting a postcolonial approach, the thesis uses Carey's representation of an iconic Australian hero as a conduit to questions of racial identity in the so-called reconciling nation. My thesis offers a detailed textual analysis of Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel True History of the Kelly Gang. Available under University of Tasmania Standard License.
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