On Thomas Keneally

Keneally's caricature of a self-loathing Jimmie Blacksmith is a lost opportunity to explore the complex ways that Aboriginal people . . . were pushing against a white world that would not accept them for who they were; that would not see them as equal; that, in truth, would not see them as human.Acclaimed journalist Stan Grant weaves literary criticism, philosophy and memoir to shed light on The C...