The settlement, Jock Serong
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The settlement, Jock Serong
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The settlement
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Jock Serong
Summary
On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen's Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women. He has gathered together, under varying degrees of coercion and duress, the last of the Tasmanians, or so he believes. His purpose is to save them-from a number of things, but most pressingly from the murderous intent of the pastoral settlers on their country. The orphans Whelk and Pipi, fighting for their survival against the malevolent old man they know as the Catechist, watch as almost everything about this situation proves resistant to the Commandant's will. The wind, the spread of disease, the strange black dog that floats in on the prow of a wrecked ship... But above all the Chief, the leader of the exiles, before whom the Commandant performs a perverse, intimate dance of violence and betrayal. In The Settlement, Jock Serong reimagines in urgent, compelling prose the ill-fated exploits of George Augustus Robinson at the settlement of Wyballena-a venture whose blinkered, self-interested cruelty might stand for the colonial enterprise itself
Target audience
adult
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Subject
- Colonists -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Tasmanians + History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Tasmanians + Treatment -- Fiction
- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Islands -- Fiction
- Aboriginal collection
- Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
- Race discrimination -- Fiction
- White people -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Aboriginal Tasmanians + Warfare -- Fiction
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- Colonists -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Tasmanians + History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Tasmanians + Treatment -- Fiction
- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Islands -- Fiction
- Aboriginal collection
- Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
- Race discrimination -- Fiction
- White people -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Aboriginal Tasmanians + Warfare -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1