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Episode 1

“…The secret river…”
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Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History. by Lynch, Gay

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: The magistrate of Galway -- Chapter 2: Edward Geoghegan and The Hibernian father (1844) -- Chapter 3: Apocryphal stories generated by the wreck of the Admella (1859) -- Chapter 4: Apocryphal stories in historical fiction: Kate Grenville's The secret river (2005) and Searching for the secret river (2006) -- Chapter 5: Architextuality, genre, the Australian fiction tradition.…”
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The virgin of Guadalupe and the conversos : uncovering hidden influences from Spain to Mexico by Hernández, Marie Theresa, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Virgin of the secret river -- The monks of the king: Los Monjes del Rey -- Divine splendor -- Hebrew truth: Hebraica veritas -- The sphinx -- Miguel sánchez, Guadalupe, and the inquisition -- Madre Sion.…”
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The postcolonial historical novel : realism, allegory, and the representation of contested pasts by Dalley, Hamish, 1984-

Table of Contents: “…The contemporary postcolonial historical novel: beyond anti-realism -- Allegorical realism: toward a poetics of the postcolonial historical novel -- Typification and frontier violence: Kate Grenville's The secret river -- The gender of settler realism: Fiona Kidman's The captive wife -- Deterritorializing allegorical realism: Witi Ihimaera's The Trowenna Sea -- Aesthetics of absent causality: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a yellow sun -- Spectres of civil war trauma: Chris Abani's Song for night -- Metafictional realism and the dialectic of allegory: Richard Flanagan's Gould's book of fish -- Conclusion: The historical novel, from postcolonial reconciliation to environmental crisis.…”
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Talking books.

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Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage : Making and Unmaking the Postcolonial Novel. by Johnson, Frances A.

Table of Contents: “…The Trouble with History: Scaling the Archive -- Ideology and Politics: A Background to the History Wars -- The Novelist in the Archive: Kate Grenville's The Secret River Trilogy and Kim Scott's Benang and That Deadman Dance -- White-Gloved Border Police: Archival Custody and the Protection of History -- Whose Treasure? …”
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Neo-Victorian tropes of trauma : the politics of bearing after-witness to nineteenth-century suffering by Kohlke, Marie-Luise

Table of Contents: “…Sadoff ; Photography, trauma and the politics of war in Beryl Bainbridge's Master Georgie / Vanessa Guignery ; The neo-Victorian frame of Mitchell's Cloud atlas : temporal and traumatic reverberations / Celia Wallhead and Marie-Luise Kohlke ; Australia's "other" history wars : trauma and the work of cultural memory in Kate Grenville's The secret river / Kate Mitchell -- Contesting colonialism : crises of nationhood, empire and afterimages. …”
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In a prominent bar in Secaucus : new and selected poems, 1955-2007 by Kennedy, X. J.

Table of Contents: “…Filbert's golden quarters -- Jerry Christmas -- Poor people in church -- Sonnet beginning with a line and a half abandoned by Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- God's obsequies -- Storehouse -- At the antiques fair -- Secret river -- Command decision -- Bald eagle -- Meeting a friend again after thirty years -- Finding a tintype -- Out of tune with the stars -- Envoi.…”
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