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Post colonial literature and imperial history pass like ships in the night. Indeed, the emblematic preoccupation of Australian literature: canonical and contemporary, with the post colonial status of Australia and the hybrid nature of her culture is testimony to the notion that Australia is entrenched in a crisis of identity, seemingly yearning for a defined concept of ‘Australian-ness.’ Literature is most often a forum for exploring the unsaid and the unaddressed within society and thus it makes sense that this journey for a ‘place and a space: and an effective identifying relationship between the two’ has remained a major concern for the Australian author; the search for a new language and imagery a long and agonizing one.

There are complexities and perplexities surrounding the difficulty of conceiving how a colonized country can ‘use language as a tool for revenge’ in order to reclaim its identity ‘in a language that is now but was not its own language, and genres which are now but were not genres of the colonized.’ Certainly the images and constructions of ‘Australian-ness’ are hazy and although her nat

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Approximate Word count = 2646
Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page double spaced)