McAuley, James, 1, 220–221, 257–258, 275

McGahan, Andrew, 1, 109–125

mediation, 44, 46

medievalismSee also postcolonial medievalism, 9, 41–42, 52–53

memory, 20, 24, 28, 33, 46, 112, 118, 121–122, 137, 173, 224–227, 231, 246, 272

metanarrative, 41, 45, 51

Miles Franklin Award, 121, 237

mimicry, 2, 24, 118, 265, 269, 273

modernity, 16–19, 27, 29, 36, 46, 69, 250–251, 272

modernities, 15–20, 36–37

myths, 23, 81, 221, 223, 227

naming, 2, 20, 28–30, 79, 93, 102, 104, 230, 259

politics of naming, 30

narratives, 2, 21, 28–29, 33–35, 52, 60, 78–79, 81–82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 111–114, 118–122, 124–125, 132–133, 135, 137, 169, 191, 198, 204–205, 207–210, 213–215, 220–221, 223–224, 226–229, 231, 233, 237, 239–243, 247, 251, 258, 263, 266–267

national identity, 1, 60, 75–76, 121–122, 213–214, 219, 221, 223, 227, 231, 257

nationalism, 17, 23, 46, 61, 77, 178

nationalist, 21–24, 46, 52, 61–62

native title, 7, 119, 143, 151, 173, 275

neocolonial, 6–7, 186

New York City, 57–58, 61, 271

New Zealand, 2–3, 122, 266

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 43, 239, 249, 252

Nigeria, 6, 66, 68

non-Indigenous, 9–10, 18, 21, 100, 102, 110, 112–113, 117, 121, 130, 132–134, 136–141, 143–149, 185, 196–197, 268, 273

Onus, Lin, 24–25

Other, the, 151, 227, 229, 231

otherness, 31, 81, 83, 205, 207–208

painting, Australian, 21, 23–24

place, 15–17, 19–25, 27–31, 34, 36, 51, 57, 62–65, 70–71, 83–84, 86, 94, 96, 100–102, 104, 110, 115–118, 122, 145–146, 197–198, 209, 212, 233, 256, 261

poetry, 10, 22–23, 45, 220–221, 226–227, 229–230

Indigenous, 10, 263–275

postcolonial, 10, 256–275

possession, 29, 111, 115, 117, 151, 209, 212, 214, 222, 241, 255, 260

postcolonial

Australian literature as postcolonial literature, 2, 5–9, 11, 15–36, 59, 63, 67–68, 76–79, 86, 90, 109–110, 112, 120–122, 132, 158, 185–186, 204, 207, 215, 220, 226–227, 229, 231, 238, 243, 255, 257, 269

definitions of, 4–9, 11, 63, 66, 124, 185–186, 208

literature, 2–6, 8, 22, 35–36, 63–67, 69–70, 75, 95, 110, 206, 255

medievalism, 41–42, 48, 51–53

postcolonizing, 7

reading strategies, 1, 2, 8, 15–36, 59, 95, 215, 237–239, 249, 275

societies, 6–7, 15, 17, 65, 120–121, 135, 160, 172, 174