![]() ![]() Different aspects of his treatment of alterity are shown in three of his novels. ‘appropriation.’ Patrick White (1912-1990) is then presented as one Australian author of white settler descent who appropriates the discourse of the centre and the restrictive characteristics of his homeland to create both a personal reputation and a work extremely imbedded in alterity. total compliance with the centre of the empire 2. ![]() The literary manifestations springing from this context are related to the stages of post-colonial literatures as they have been termed and defined by the theorists of post-coloniality Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin and Gareth Griffiths: 1. thesis probes into some contingencies of the Australian history which have been decisive to the emergences of its national identity: the European bewilderment at the geographical features of the Australian continent the difficult encounter with its native peoples and the settlement of the penal colony. ![]()
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