The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
work by Keneally
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Australian literature
- In Australian literature: Literature from 1970 to 2000
…and attracted widespread notice with The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972). Nearly all his novels explore the intersection of history and the individual life and contemplate just what kind of effect the insignificant individual can have on events of some moment. When Schindler’s Ark (1982), which is centrally about just…
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discussed in biography
- In Thomas Keneally
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972; film 1980) won Keneally international acclaim; it is based on the actual story of a half-caste Aboriginal who rebels against white racism by going on a murder spree. The Great Shame (1998), a work inspired by his own ancestry,…
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