The white settlers' experience of exile and alienation in Grenville’s The Secret River

Literature has the capacity to create forms of history and memory that many historians and critics are not able to recognize. Kate Grenville’s The Secret River portrays the history and culture of two nations. Grenville depicts the fiction in the form of history that belongs to her own ancestors. Gre...

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Main Authors: Khorzughi, Ruzbeh Babaee, Ali Termizi, Arbaayah, Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur
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Language:English
Published: Richtmann Publishing 2015
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author Khorzughi, Ruzbeh Babaee
Ali Termizi, Arbaayah
Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur
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description Literature has the capacity to create forms of history and memory that many historians and critics are not able to recognize. Kate Grenville’s The Secret River portrays the history and culture of two nations. Grenville depicts the fiction in the form of history that belongs to her own ancestors. Grenville’s novel gives her the chance to do a historical research that is from the history of her ancestors in 1805 to the realities that contemporary historians disclose about Australian settlers. In her historical fiction, Grenville depicts the exile, alienation, failure, success, dream, desire, and lifestyle of her own ancestors. Furthermore, through her novel, Grenville creates the opportunity to write on behalf of her ancestors as frontiers. In this respect, her act of writing in The Secret River is an act of revealing and solving some historical realities and mysteries with the help of the knowledge that she inherited from her own ancestors. The present study aims to explore these realities and in particular the exile and alienation of the white settlers in The Secret River.
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spelling upm-467172022-07-07T03:04:22Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/46717/ The white settlers' experience of exile and alienation in Grenville’s The Secret River Khorzughi, Ruzbeh Babaee Ali Termizi, Arbaayah Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur Literature has the capacity to create forms of history and memory that many historians and critics are not able to recognize. Kate Grenville’s The Secret River portrays the history and culture of two nations. Grenville depicts the fiction in the form of history that belongs to her own ancestors. Grenville’s novel gives her the chance to do a historical research that is from the history of her ancestors in 1805 to the realities that contemporary historians disclose about Australian settlers. In her historical fiction, Grenville depicts the exile, alienation, failure, success, dream, desire, and lifestyle of her own ancestors. Furthermore, through her novel, Grenville creates the opportunity to write on behalf of her ancestors as frontiers. In this respect, her act of writing in The Secret River is an act of revealing and solving some historical realities and mysteries with the help of the knowledge that she inherited from her own ancestors. The present study aims to explore these realities and in particular the exile and alienation of the white settlers in The Secret River. Richtmann Publishing 2015-03 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/46717/1/The%20white%20settlers%20experience%20of%20exile%20and%20alienation%20in%20Grenville%E2%80%99s%20The%20Secret%20River_new.pdf Khorzughi, Ruzbeh Babaee and Ali Termizi, Arbaayah and Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur (2015) The white settlers' experience of exile and alienation in Grenville’s The Secret River. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 6 (2 S1). pp. 521-526. ISSN 2039-9340; ESSN: 2039-2117 https://www.richtmann.org/journal/index.php/mjss/article/view/5933 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2s1p521
spellingShingle Khorzughi, Ruzbeh Babaee
Ali Termizi, Arbaayah
Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur
The white settlers' experience of exile and alienation in Grenville’s The Secret River
title The white settlers' experience of exile and alienation in Grenville’s The Secret River
title_full The white settlers' experience of exile and alienation in Grenville’s The Secret River
title_fullStr The white settlers' experience of exile and alienation in Grenville’s The Secret River
title_full_unstemmed The white settlers' experience of exile and alienation in Grenville’s The Secret River
title_short The white settlers' experience of exile and alienation in Grenville’s The Secret River
title_sort white settlers' experience of exile and alienation in grenville’s the secret river
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