TY  - BOOK
AU  - Serong,Jock
TI  - The settlement
SN  - 9781922458797 (paperback)
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Melbourne, VIC
PB  - Text Publishing
KW  - White persons
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Islands
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Aboriginal Tasmanians
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Warfare
KW  - Treatment
KW  - White people
KW  - Colonists
KW  - Race discrimination
KW  - Tasmania
KW  - AUS historical fiction (Victoria)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Scheduled to be published August 2022; Tertiary/Undergraduate, General
N2  - 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
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