Robert Drewe
Articles
- Cultural Memory in Postcolonial Fiction: The Uses and Abuses of Ned Kelly
Focusing on Carey’s and Drewe’s representations of the Ned Kelly legend, the article explores the issues of memory, cultural myths and postcolonial fiction. Huggan argues…
1 May 2002 - Getting a Head: Dismembering and Remembering in Robert Drewe’s The Savage Crows
The article examines the use of bodily metaphors of dismemberment and beheading in Drewe’s novel about the fate of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people, The Savage…
1 May 2003 - Preying on the Past: Contexts of Some Recent Neo-Historical Fiction
Discusses the 'revisionist' historical fiction of, among others, Rodney Hall, David Malouf and Robert Drewe, in the context of Australian historical fiction from its origins…
1 October 1992 - Transfigured Histories: Recent Novels of Patrick White and Robert Drewe
Focusing on Drewe's The Savage Crows (1976) and White's A Fringe of Leaves (1976), Stow compares the authors' approaches to history and the fictionalising of…
1 May 1979