Myth, Memory and Misunderstanding: Irish-Australian Identity in Peter Carey's 'True History of the Kelly Gang' by Marija Pericic

“…Carey's Kelly is a complex and problematical figure of struggling Irish-Australian identity, and the text explores the cultural dialogue between Ireland and Australia and the way that it has shaped both personal and national identity construction. …”
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Settler literature and the Booker Prize: transnational literatures and metropolitan reception, 1985-2000 by McLean, T

“…In the second chapter, Peter Carey (primarily in his True History of the Kelly Gang ) is read as dealing with cultural cringe by emphasising Australian quiddity and uniqueness, as well as by presenting (Irish) Australians as colonised rather than colonisers. …”