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

“…In this text, Peter Carey creates a Ned Kelly at a far remove from the traditional heroic image of the outlaw. …”
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Unsettling Australia: Disturbing White Settler Homemaking in Peter Carey’s <i>True History of the Kelly Gang</i> by Sarah Heinz

“…The novel’s critical staging of Ned Kelly’s construction of Australia as a home for a new class of ‘natives’ challenges an essentialist white Australianness and its narratives of embattled settlement, independence, mateship, and the Bush. …”
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Monstrous (In)Authenticity: Text and Identity in Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake by Nataša Kampmark

“…The Booker Prize winning True History of the Kelly Gang (2001) is inspired by the so-called “Jerilderie letter,” which was written by Australia’s most famous outlaw, Ned Kelly, after a bank robbery in 1879. The fifty-six page long original letter is expanded in Carey’s version into thirteen parcels which actually make up this epistolary novel. …”
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